Site Reliability Engineering Tech Lead

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Lead to join DataHub and drive the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our platform offerings. In this role, you'll lead technical initiatives across DataHub Cloud and our emerging enterprise deployment solution, which provides customers with enhanced control and flexibility for running DataHub in their preferred environments.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure solutions for DataHub Cloud and enterprise deployments

• Lead the technical vision for multi-cloud deployment strategies and distributed system integrations

• Architect monitoring, observability, and alerting systems across diverse environments

• Drive best practices for infrastructure as code, configuration management, and deployment automation

Enterprise Platform Development

• Partner with product and engineering teams to influence the development of advanced deployment capabilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help build systems for seamless installation, upgrade, and rollback processes across various environments

• Influence the design and help implement comprehensive monitoring and health check systems for distributed deployments

• Partner with engineering teams to help develop self-healing and automated remediation capabilities

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Establish and maintain SLAs/SLOs for both cloud and enterprise offerings

• Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to drive continuous improvement

• Implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify system weaknesses

• Optimize system performance, capacity planning, and cost efficiency

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor and guide a team of SRE engineers and collaborate with platform engineering teams

• Work closely with product, engineering, and customer success teams to ensure reliable product delivery

• Improve on-call practices, runbooks, and knowledge sharing processes

• Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve overall system reliability

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps roles

• 3+ years of technical leadership experience managing engineering teams

• Strong expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure automation tools

• Proficiency in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages

• Deep understanding of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Strong knowledge of networking, security, and database operations in cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms

• Background in developing customer-facing deployment and management tools

• Knowledge of data infrastructure and metadata management systems

• Experience with service mesh technologies and microservices architectures

• Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role or working with enterprise clients

• Experience with data governance or data catalog platforms

What You'll Build

• A robust management control plane for enterprise-grade deployments

• Automated deployment pipelines supporting multiple cloud providers and customer environments

• Comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems with customer-facing dashboards

• Self-service tools for customers to manage their DataHub installations

• Disaster recovery and backup solutions for enterprise deployments

• Performance optimization and scaling solutions for high-volume data workloads