Software Engineering Manager - Reliability Engineering, Store Systems

About this role

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Position Purpose:
As a Software Reliability Engineer Manager on the Store Systems RE team, you will ensure the resilience, performance, and security of our Store System and related application, working alongside partner Dev and Enablement teams supporting our critical Engineering Experience services. As a subject matter expert in Reliability Principles and Practices, you will act as an anchor for our Store Systems RE team, mentoring junior engineers — leading incident triage, root cause analysis, driving no-repeat resolutions of systemic problems through ownership of blameless postmortems. Your mission is to ensure that reliability is engineered into our platforms through automation, rigorous change, incident, problem management, and destructive testing, while establishing and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that let product teams build and run customer-facing workloads on highly available, paved-path solutions.
Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Strategy & Planning:

• Looks across teams with a focus on alignment and dependencies

• Gains a thorough understanding of infrastructure needs and guides teams to design infrastructure platforms that meet end user requirements

• Translates product and project goals into infrastructure strategy and clearly communicates direction and priorities to teams and business partners

• Determines value to the business of anticipated Systems Engineering efforts

• Identifies goals, metrics, and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of Systems Engineering teams; continually makes recommendations and refinements on approaches based on learnings

• Reviews recommended solutions and work of Systems Engineers to ensure alignment with company, stakeholder, and end user priorities

• 20% Delivery & Execution:

• Leads configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure

• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met

• Leads field and corporate roll-outs of technology

• Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs

• Creates and optimizes specifications for complex technology solutions

• Provides regular status to leadership regarding progress of Systems Engineering efforts

• Manages vendor relationships

• Manages, reviews, and approves purchase requests for hardware and software

• 20% Support & Enablement:

• Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair Systems Engineers to help ensure efforts meet strategic, financial, and technical goals

• Receives and prioritizes escalations and incoming requests from product teams and stakeholders

• Guides the production of in-house documentation around solutions

• Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues

• 30% People:

• Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Systems Engineering professionals

• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent

• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback

• Fosters collaboration with team members to drive value, and identify and resolve impediments

• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs

• Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks

• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around systems engineering core practices (communities of practice)

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Systems Engineer Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.
Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor teams of SREs, infrastructure engineers, and operations staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and engineering excellence.

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Strategic Planning: Define and execute the long-term reliability roadmap, aligning technical goals with broader business objectives and product delivery schedules.

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Talent Development: Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent. Conduct performance reviews, establish clear career paths, and manage skill-gap training.

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Budget & Resource Management: Oversee departmental budgets, cloud spending, and vendor negotiations. Optimize resource allocation to balance cost with system performance.

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Service Level Management: Define, measure, and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) across various product lines.

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Incident & Crisis Management: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for high-severity incidents. Lead blameless post-mortems and ensure preventative action items are successfully implemented.

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Capacity Planning: Anticipate system growth and scale infrastructure accordingly to prevent degradation during peak loads.

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Chaos Engineering & Resilience: Champion chaos engineering practices and disaster recovery planning to proactively identify and mitigate systemic vulnerabilities.

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Cloud & Infrastructure: Deep expertise in managing enterprise-scale environments across major cloud providers (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure).

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced knowledge of provisioning and configuration management tools such as…