At AccelByte, our mission is to empower game creators by providing them with the backend platform and tools required to make scalable, reliable AAA-quality games. The company was founded in 2016 by industry veterans who have engineered online systems for some of the largest game and distribution platforms in the world including Fortnite, Epic Store, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and EA Origin. We are backed by top investors including Softbank, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Galaxy Interactive, NetEase, and Krafton. Our latest Series B funding has firmly solidified our place as a top player in the gaming industry. AccelByte's talent has decades of experience building and shipping some of the largest game and distribution platforms in the world.
We believe that the best companies empower employees to make decisions, obsess about the best user experience, and are not afraid to make and learn from their mistakes. Our culture is based on humility, openness to feedback, drive, and collaboration, which we feel results in the best performing teams. As a company that values diversity, inclusion, and employee growth, our employees have opportunities to work with and learn from teams all over the world. We offer competitive salaries, a full range of health benefits, social activities, career growth opportunities, and an amazing team. Come join us!
**Position Summary**
As an SRE Manager - Tools & Pipeline, you support a team of SRE/Cloud Engineers with direction, strategy, teaching, hiring, partner collaboration, balancing resources, and removing obstacles as needed. Your focus is achieving goals and managing issues between business and delivery.
**Essential Functions/Responsibilities**
The SRE Manager - Tools & Pipeline is accountable for the following functions and responsibilities:
- Establish clear organizational context and goals
- Retain the right leads and senior SRE/Cloud Engineers - Tools & Pipeline for multiple relevant teams
- Foster improvement and advancement with individualized growth plans, while ensuring clear instructions are given to engineering team members
- Provide accurate forecasts and risk assessments on organizational initiatives
- Exemplary collaboration with relevant team-members across the organization
- Lead larger organizational initiatives beyond immediate team responsibilities
- Direct R&D projects and evaluate their progress, as well as managing project delays and process improvements
- Continuously work to improve the reliability, stability, and performance of the service
- Assist the team with performing engineering tasks where needed
- Review the teams engineering work to ensure technical accuracy
- Perform other duties as assigned
**Qualifications/Experience Required**
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering or cloud engineering experience
- At least 3 years of previous management experience including teams of 5+
- Ability to learn emerging engineering trends and explain them to others
- Proven ability to assist SRE/Cloud Engineer - Tools & Pipeline teams with alleviating their roadblocks to success
- Ability to deliver multi-component systems and products to high standards
- Proven ability in release and build workflow as well as tooling and related pipelining strategies and architecture
- Proficiency in written and verbal English language to succeed in a remote work environment
- Flexibility to adjust to work routines/schedules, as required, to meet the needs of the company and expectations of customers
- Professional experience at a AAA game studio or a mature software product company preferred.
- Experience working in a multinational technology startup is a big plus
- Professional experience creating cloud platforms or web products preferred
- Flexibility to adjust to work routines/schedules, as required, to meet the needs of the company and expectations of customers