185K–276K GBP / year
Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Engineering managerHybrid — London
Published on 2026-11-07
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About this role
Lead and grow Baseten’s first London-based SRE team, responsible for the reliability of its multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure during the team’s coverage hours. You’ll guide reliability strategy, incident response, observability, and operational improvements while partnering with teams in the US and across the company.
About the company
Baseten is an inference cloud that helps companies run and scale AI models in production with flexible infrastructure and developer tooling.
The team
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), within EPD, Engineering, and Infrastructure.
Stack
KubernetesEKSGKEVictoriaMetricsPrometheusLokiELKGrafana
What you'll do
- Recruit, coach, and develop the London SRE team.
- Own infrastructure reliability, incident response, and remediation during the team’s coverage hours.
- Establish follow-the-sun on-call rotations, escalations, and handoffs with US SRE leadership.
- Lead technical decisions, design reviews, code reviews, and reliability roadmap delivery.
- Define and instrument SLOs and SLIs, and build observability infrastructure as code.
- Turn recurring failures into runbooks, automated mitigations, and self-healing systems.
- Partner with engineering, capacity, product, and forward-deployed teams to improve operational reliability.
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years of direct engineering management experience in SRE, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience and a strong background in scalable production infrastructure.
- Experience with observability tooling, infrastructure as code, and GitOps workflows.
- Experience leading incident response, post-mortems, on-call rotations, and runbooks.
- Track record of recruiting and growing engineering talent.
- Strong communication and cross-time-zone collaboration skills.
- Able to work onsite in the London office 3 days a week.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing a new engineering team or regional presence.
- Observability-as-code experience.
- Multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure experience.
- Familiarity with incident management platforms such as incident.io.
- GPU infrastructure or runtime troubleshooting experience.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity.
- Flexible PTO and a company-wide Winter Break.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.