Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

$201,700 - $322,300/Yr

Zillow Group - Remote, OR

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Remote, OR

Real Estate

About the position

As the Sr. Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Zillow, you will lead a newly formed team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on migrating classic systems to a modern, container-based platform. This role emphasizes collaboration with engineering leaders and project management to ensure timely and high-quality migrations across various engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-8 Site Reliability Engineers with strong software development backgrounds.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product managers, and program managers in multi-functional teams.
• Deliver high-quality, timely, and on-budget migrations through the team.
• Combine people and project management skills to lead a successful team through multiple sophisticated projects simultaneously.
• Implement a series of migration waves.
• Coordinate, supervise, and communicate status and activities to peers, senior engineering leaders, and engineer executives.
• Track, mitigate, resolve, and escalate systemic and individual migration issues as required.
• Build and maintain plans and forecasts with specified budgets and landmarks.
• Ensure transparency and precision in defining the scope of projects.
• Plan, supervise, and control multiple large-scale cloud migration projects through all phases of the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software development experience as an individual contributor or team lead.
• 3+ years in a management or tech leadership role.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science.
• Experience migrating large projects to new platforms.
• Experience partnering with developers, product managers, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience driving the technical strategy of your team.
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies.
• Proven experience mentoring and growing successful engineering teams.
• High level understanding of application architecture, shared services, interfaces, and database systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Parental leave and family benefits.
• Retirement contributions.
• Paid time off.