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Sre Engineering Manager Jobs (NOW HIRING)

$267K - $401K/yr

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager, Apple Maps Cupertino, California, United States Software and Services Apple Maps and location services are used by hundreds of millions of people every day ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Mclean, VA · Remote

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Remote No sponsorship available. Must be able to obtain a Public ... engineering standards. * Support incident management activities, including troubleshooting, root ...

SRE Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$67 - $89/hr

... tooling for product engineering teams, and ensuring high-scale software deployment ... an SRE/DevOps. • Familiarity in operating lucene/solr/elasticsearch based systems as an SRE ...

SRE Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$54.75 - $72.75/hr

Leverage deep expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and SRE principles to influence technology choices, establish best practices, and foster a proactive ...

SRE/DevOps Engineer - GenAI

Austin, TX · On-site

$56.50 - $75/hr

Core SRE / DevOps Skills * Strong experience in DevOps / SRE roles supporting production systems ... Solid understanding of prompt engineering, model inference, embeddings, and vector stores

SRE Engineer (Transformation)

Dallas, TX · On-site

$56.50 - $75/hr

... management processes • Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and fault ... engineering, and product teams to embed reliability into the development lifecycle • Champion ...

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How much do sre engineering manager jobs pay per hour?

As of Sep 10, 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.

Manager, Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$150K - $220K/yr

Full-time

Posted 12 days ago


Job description


The Role:  

As an engineering organization, we pride ourselves on engineering as a creative activity. Engineering managers enable engineers to do their best work by maintaining a culture and environment where engineers can achieve autonomy, mastery, and purpose. The Manager, Site Reliability Engineering will lead Forge's SRE team responsible for keeping Forge systems highly available for customers, while partnering closely with Platform, Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Product teams to improve reliability, observability, incident response, and operational maturity. This is an opportunity for a hands-on technical leader who can coach engineers, improve production operations, and help Forge build and run secure, scalable, and highly reliable products.

Responsibilities: 

  • Manage Forge's Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for keeping Forge systems highly available for customers.

  • Drive strong incident management practices in partnership with engineering teams, including response, mitigation, follow-up, and post-incident learning.

  • Build, improve, and manage observability infrastructure in partnership with Platform Engineering, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational metrics.
  • Improve monitoring coverage and alert quality to reduce noise, shorten time to detect, and support faster response and mitigation.
  • Champion reliability best practices across engineering, including service ownership, operational readiness, disaster recovery, and production support standards.
  • Contribute to technical design, architecture, automation, infrastructure, and overall team delivery.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues, identify recurring problems, and improve system reliability.

    • Hire, coach, mentor, and manage performance for SRE team members while supporting career development and team health.
    Partner with Security, Compliance, and Risk partners to ensure reliability and infrastructure practices meet the needs of a regulated business.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience leading a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, or similar reliability-focused function.
  • 10+ years of total software engineering, infrastructure, platform, cloud, or production operations experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience building, operating, and maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, troubleshooting, and production support.
  • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, and operational tooling.
  • Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and ability to influence across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience in FinTech, financial services, or another regulated industry.
  • Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, container platforms, infrastructure-as-code, Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tooling.
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
  • Experience improving developer experience through paved-road platforms, standardization, and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
  • Experience supporting growth-stage companies where speed, scale, reliability, and operational discipline must be balanced.

For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $150,000-$220,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, annual bonus, and other factors.