Head of Site Reliability Engineering
| Company | Shakudo |
|---|---|
| Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles with increasing responsibility
- Proven experience scaling distributed systems in a high-availability, production environment
- Expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, containerization, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Strong knowledge of system design, networking, and reliability principles
- Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and incident response practices
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with a hands-on, collaborative approach
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the SRE function at Shakudo, setting goals, technical direction, and driving team culture
- Own uptime, reliability, and incident response for our platform
- Architect scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, cloud-native tooling, and automation frameworks
- Lead the design of observability, monitoring, and alerting systems to proactively detect and prevent issues
- Create and enforce best practices for CI/CD, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives (SLOs)
- Partner closely with engineering and product to ensure new features are reliable and production-ready
- Mentor engineers and help instill a culture of operational excellence
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting data pipelines, ML workloads, or complex orchestration systems
- Familiarity with the data/ML tooling ecosystem (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark, Dremio, etc.)
- Previous experience in a startup or high-growth environment