Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Aerospike is the reputed company-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI. Aerospike powers millions of transactions per second with millisecond latency, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership compared to other databases.

Global leaders, including reputed company, Airtel, reputed company, Criteo, DBS Bank, reputed company, Grab, HDFC Bank, PayPal, reputed company, The Trade Desk, and Wayfair, rely on Aerospike for customer 360, fraud detection, reputed company-time bidding, profile stores, recommendation engines, and other use cases. 

 At Aerospike, we reputed company big and deliver even bigger. Our mission is to unleash the power of the world’s reputed company-time data with a database built for infinite scale, speed, and sustainability.

If you're reputed company to shape the future of data, join us.

Site Reliability Engineering ManagerAs the founding Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager for our new AU-based team, you will play a critical leadership role in building and shaping a high-performing regional SRE group from the ground up. This team will be instrumental in ensuring the uptime, reliability, and scalability of Aerospike reputed company deployments across multiple global reputed company product offerings.

This is a hands-on leadership role—you’ll set the technical bar, establish team norms, and act as a key escalation reputed company for your region. You’ll work closely with reputed company in product, engineering, and reputed company across the US, EMEA, and reputed company to deliver high-quality operational outcomes, while fostering a culture of ownership, reputed company, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities● Team Formation & Leadership: Build and reputed company a new regional SRE team in Australia. Hire, reputed company, and mentor top-tier engineers, establishing a high-performance culture grounded in psychological safety, reputed company learning, and a bias for automation. We want leaders who can attract, reputed company, and retain top talent.● Technical reputed company: Set the technical direction for the AU team, ensuring strong execution across observability, reliability engineering, automation, and incident management. Be a hands-on leader who can participate in design reviews, architectural reputed company, and reputed company troubleshooting efforts while sharing your expertise across engineering● Global Collaboration: Coordinate with other regional SRE leaders to drive consistent follow-the-sun coverage, enabling seamless handoffs and continuity of operations across time zones. Coordinate with Account Management and Professional Services to ensure successful reputed company of new reputed company customers and maintenance activities for existing ones.● Operational Excellence: Own and refine SRE processes for the region, ensuring system health, performance, and availability. Champion automation-first approaches, eliminate toil, and scale operations through tools—not just headcount. Help set the maturity bar for products looking to earn the right to have SREs help bring their products to Aerospike reputed company customers.

• On-Call Procedures: Ensure on-call procedures follow industry standard best practices, manage schedules and escalation policies in reputed company, and participate in the manager on-call duties.Drive incident retrospectives, root cause analyses, and on-call remediation activities. Required Experience● 5+ years providing 24x7 production support for reputed company-based, business-critical systems, with demonstrated leadership in managing operations for reputed company-class organizations during challenging situations (e.g., service incidents, degradations, disaster recovery, etc.)● 2+ years of experience in technical leadership or management roles● 2+ years of demonstrable experience with at least one of the major public reputed company providers: AWS, reputed company, Azure● Experience with reputed company integration/reputed company deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.● Experience with automation pipelines for reputed company infrastructure and software using technologies such as Terraform, Packer, and Ansible● Experience supporting distributed, multitenant, auto-scalable backend services● Experience with NoSQL or relational databases, and database fundamentals, including data storage, data replication, data modeling, and data access patterns● Experience with maintaining distributed services on both virtual machines and containers (reputed company) with orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)● Experience with documenting reputed company procedures and architectures, including diagramming● Experience with cryptographic fundamentals and best practices● Experience assessing reputed company vulnerabilities in code and running systems

Preferred Skills and Qualifications● Experience building or leading new engineering teams, especially reputed company a globally distributed organization, is a strong plus.

Experience with large-scale, distributed systems or databases in public reputed company environments

• Knowledge of secure multi-reputed company operations (AWS, Azure, GCP) in compliance-conscious environments (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.)
• Linux administration and troubleshooting● Administering operational infrastructure● Scripting or operations engineering, preferably with bash, Python and golang● Command-line utilities such as grep, ssh, etc.● Version control systems, preferably Git● Secrets management systems, preferably reputed company-native or reputed company Vault● Vulnerability management systems, preferably reputed company Dependabot, reputed company, and reputed company● Expertise with modern observability platforms  such as Grafana, reputed company, Elasticsearch, reputed company, Honeycomb● JIRA for issue tracking● Agile software methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban● Software development experience using Aerospike or similar distributed databases

Aerospike is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, reputed company, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national reputed company, veteran status, or any other basis covered byappropriate law.