RapidSOS
public safety AI
SiteReliabilityEngineeringManager
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“Site Reliability Engineering Manager at RapidSOS. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure management, team leadership, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, AWS. keeping RapidSOS's cloud infrastructure running reliably. helping product teams get to a place where they can run their own services without routing every operational issue through SRE”
Industry & Context.
failure mode analysis; systemic improvements
on-call manager
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps, at least two years where you were responsible for a team and not just your own work, directly responsible for Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure in production environments where uptime and resilience are critical, Experience moving a team from reactive ops toward engineering-first reliability practices, worked collaboratively with engineering teams to proactively improve reliability, scalability, and operational readiness before issues reach production, Ability to write Python, review production-quality scripts, and tooling, applied SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortems in practice to improve reliability and drive better engineering decisions, Hands-on familiarity with: Terraform/Atlantis, Kubernetes/Helm/ArgoCD, Datadog, Concourse CI/GitHub Actions, RabbitMQ, and AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, VPC networking, IAM, KMS, Route53)
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
keeping RapidSOS's cloud infrastructure running reliably
helping product teams get to a place where they can run their own services without routing every operational issue through SRE
and testing that multi-region failover actually works
Drive the IaC foundation in Terraform/Atlantis
Partner with Engineering Managers to set SLOs for their services
establish error budgets
and help teams build the habits to operate what they build
Maintain proactive reliability work: capacity planning
failure mode analysis
and chaos engineering
run reliability reviews before major launches and organize failure mode exercises with product teams
Drive blameless postmortem practice
ensures every significant incident produces systemic improvements with clear ownership and closure
Run the Tier 1 on-call rotation: scheduling for primary and secondary engineers
coordination with the 3rd-party NOC
and keeping incident escalation processes smooth and manageable
Lead incident command on Sev-1s
and keep engineering leadership informed throughout
Lead and grow a high-impact team by mentoring engineers
and thinking ahead about what the team needs as the function grows
Shape the team’s long-term AI strategy for infrastructure and operations by identifying opportunities for AI-driven automation and insight generation
evaluating tooling and workflows
and operationalizing best practices for scalable team-wide usage
Own reserved instance strategy and the team's AWS cost footprint
error budgets and SLOs across production services and communicate that picture clearly to engineering and product leadership
Work alongside Platform SRE on bigger infrastructure projects: Gateway API adoption
cross-region architecture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Engineering Managers to set SLOs for their services, establish error budgets, and help teams build the habits to operate what they build; worked collaboratively with engineering teams to proactively improve reliability, scalability, and operational readiness before issues reach production; organize failure mode exercises with product teams; Work alongside Platform SRE on bigger infrastructure projects
Communication Scope
communicate that picture clearly to engineering and product leadership; keep engineering leadership informed throughout
Process & Methodology
owning headcount, thinking ahead about what the team needs as the function grows
Full Job Description
In the time it takes you to read this job description, RapidSOS will have handled ~1,380 emergencies. At RapidSOS, we are committed to using technology to build a safer, stronger future and working together to save lives. We’re in an exciting phase of growth, welcoming new members from across the globe to our mission-driven, ambitious, and inclusive team. Our work is founded on our values of elevating purpose, inventing tomorrow, delivering with urgency, serving with integrity, and winning together, all of which support a company culture where people can innovate, collaborate, grow, and, above all, make an impact. RapidSOS is the leading public safety AI company that unlocks mission-critical intelligence for first responders and security teams – enabling faster, smarter and more accurate emergency response. Real-time data from the world’s largest safety network of 700M+ devices, 200+ global enterprises, and 23,000+ federal, state and local agencies fuels the RapidSOS HARMONY AI engine that delivers this intelligence to those who need it most. Learn more at www.RapidSOS.com. What this role is about: This is an engineering leadership role, not simply an on-call manager. The SRE Manager owns two things: keeping RapidSOS's cloud infrastructure running reliably, and helping product teams get to a place where they can run their own services without routing every operational issue through SRE. RapidSOS powers real-time emergency response by connecting life-critical data to first responders, so reliability here directly impacts outcomes in moments that matter. You'll lead the SRE Operations team and report to the Director of SRE ensure upgrades, capacity planning, node scaling, and testing that multi-region failover actually works Drive the IaC foundation in Terraform/Atlantis and champion infrastructure-as-code as a core engineering standard Partner with Engineering Managers to set SLOs for their services, establish error budgets, and help teams build the habits to operate
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