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Lead SRE Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$150K/yr

Posting Type Hybrid Job Overview Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for driving ... engineering, service delivery, and productverticals. * Coordinates with product management ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability Engineering / Production Reliability experience Strong, hands-on ELK / Elastic Stack experience:

Site Reliability Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability Engineering / Production Reliability experience Strong, hands-on ELK / Elastic Stack experience:

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How much do sre engineering manager jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 9, 2026, the average hourly pay for sre engineering manager in the United States is $63.74, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $54.81 and $72.84 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is an SRE Engineering Manager?

SRE Engineering Managers are leaders who oversee Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams responsible for maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical systems. They combine technical expertise in systems engineering and software development with managerial skills to guide their teams, set priorities, and foster a culture of operational excellence. Their role includes collaborating with other engineering and product teams, driving incident response processes, and ensuring that best practices in reliability and automation are followed. Ultimately, they help organizations deliver highly available and resilient services to their users.

How does an SRE Engineering Manager balance technical leadership with team management responsibilities?

As an SRE Engineering Manager, you'll need to strike a balance between staying technically engaged—such as reviewing architecture, supporting incident response, and guiding reliability initiatives—and managing the team's performance, growth, and wellbeing. You'll often facilitate communication between engineering, product, and operations teams to align priorities and resolve reliability challenges. Additionally, you'll coach SREs, set reliability goals (like SLOs/SLIs), and help remove blockers to ensure both team and system health. Effective time management and delegation are key to succeeding in this dual role.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an SRE Engineering Manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as an SRE Engineering Manager, you need a strong background in site reliability engineering, systems architecture, and team leadership, often supported by a degree in computer science or related field. Familiarity with cloud platforms (like AWS or GCP), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and incident management systems is typically required. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills help foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment. These skills are essential for ensuring system reliability, managing complex technical challenges, and guiding teams to deliver robust and scalable infrastructure.

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Infographic showing various Sre Engineering Manager job openings in the United States as of September 2026, with employment types broken down into 87% Full Time, 12% Part Time, and 1% Contract. Highlights an 86% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 12% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $132,583 per year, or $63.7 per hour.

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Sunnyvale, CA • On-site

Google Inc.
Software Development • 10K+ employees

$67.75 - $90/hr

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Re-posted 23 days ago


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Job description

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

corporate_fare Google place Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or a related field.
About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault‑tolerant systems. SRE ensures that Google's services—both our internally critical and our externally‑visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever‑watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Google, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large‑scale system design.

SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame‑free environment. We promote self‑direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.
To learn more: check out our books on Site Reliability Engineering or read a career profile about why a Software Engineer chose to join SRE.

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Collaboration SRE, you will lead a multi‑site engineering organization across Sunnyvale and Zurich. As the leader for Drive and Docs SRE, you will owner the end‑to‑end production strategy, architectural resilience, and operational excellence of Google’s flagship collaboration platform.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Benefits

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

  • Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime.
  • Own end‑to‑end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all non‑exceptional service conditions.
  • Lead by example, mentor the team and establish credibility through quality technical execution.
  • Manage on‑call rotations across continents, using a follow‑the‑sun model.
  • Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency and efficiency of Google's services.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents‑to‑be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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