About the Role
Here at Shippo, we are the shipping layer of the internet and we consider ourselves to be one of the core building blocks of e-commerce. Our mission is to make merchants successful through world class shipping. With our products and solutions, we level the playing field by providing our customers with best-in-class solutions that otherwise wouldn’t be available to them. Through Shippo e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, platforms and a variety of logistics infrastructure providers are able to connect to shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard. We provide our customers with the most competitive shipping rates, print labels, automated international documents, shipment tracking, facilitate the returns process and more. How we’ll deliver success: As the SRE Manager at Shippo, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that enable product teams to operate reliable, performant, and scalable services. You will establish frameworks for observability, deployment automation, and infrastructure management that allow product teams to own their service reliability. You will maintain a strong support oriented team while building automation and enabling engineering productivity and operational excellence across the organization. Responsibilities Lead and develop a team of platform-focused SRE engineers, providing technical mentorship, career development, and performance management while fostering a culture of automation, self-service, and continuous improvement Build and maintain internal platforms and tooling that enable product teams to deploy, monitor, and operate their services reliably Manage observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) that provide product teams visibility into their servicesOwn the infrastructure and Kubernetes platform that all Shippo services run on, ensuring it scales ahead of business needs through capacity planning and performance optimization Establish framewo