Engineering Team Leader (Site Reliability Engineering)

XTB is a global investment company offering innovative technological solutions through a single, intuitive app used by over one million users worldwide. It is a certified Great Place to Work company.

• Several years of experience in SRE, Infrastructure, or DevOps managing high-scale, distributed environments.
• Proven formal management experience leading and mentoring SRE or DevOps teams.
• Extensive experience with scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure systems (including Azure, Kubernetes, on-premises).
• Ability to deliver end-to-end reliability strategies, architectural improvements, and manage large technical projects.
• Ability to drive cultural change and collaborate effectively with product engineering and remote teams.
• Break down complex projects into actionable tasks and drive incremental value.
• Mentor and support the professional growth of team members.
• Facilitate workshops, build a technical community, and resolve conflicts.
• Drive operational excellence, lead incident management and post-mortems.
• Proactively manage technical debt and align team outputs with organizational goals.
• Strong Python skills for building scalable automation, internal tools, and scripts.
• Expertise in managing Kubernetes, configuration management with Ansible, and designing resilient infrastructure on Azure and on-premises.
• Deep proficiency in building standardized telemetry systems with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, ELK, Tempo, Thanos.
• Experience using AI/ML for AIOps, anomaly detection, log analysis, and optimizing reliability workflows.

Nice to have:

• Experience with commercial APM platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic) and chaos engineering tooling.
• Proficiency with cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

• Shape and grow a high-performing Site Reliability Engineering team fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Define and drive the SRE platform and reliability strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Oversee 24/7 on-call and incident management processes, including tooling, procedures, compliance, and reporting.
• Define and track KPIs to drive team performance improvements and operational health visibility.
• Lead the design and evolution of the observability ecosystem implementing standardized telemetry such as structured logging, distributed tracing, and intelligent sampling.