Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Location: San Ramon, CA; Reno, NV
Are you passionate about building high-leverage platforms that enable teams to ship software safely and swiftly? Do you thrive at the intersection of reliability and velocity, balancing innovation with operational excellence? Are you eager to lead engineers who build scalable CI/CD systems, automate deployments, and engineer resilience into every release?
If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team.
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Site Reliability Engineering at Ridgeline, you will shape the delivery experience for our entire product organization. You’ll guide a team of engineers building automation frameworks, release tooling, and reliability safeguards that allow product teams to deploy confidently and frequently. From environment provisioning to canary rollouts, your leadership will establish best practices that scale alongside Ridgeline’s growing platform. You'll work closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure our infrastructure meets the evolving needs of the business. In this role, you’ll also leverage cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT—to supercharge automation and streamline delivery across the board.
At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture.
If this excites you, we’d love to meet you.
You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
The impact you will have:
Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on delivery, automation, and reliability tooling
Build and evolve CI/CD systems, deployment orchestration frameworks, and infrastructure automation platforms
Establish and scale safe deployment practices including canary releases, feature flags, and post-deployment verifications
Partner with product and platform teams to standardize service delivery processes across engineering
Define and deliver key metrics such as change failure rate, deployment frequency, and lead time for change
Automate release verification, rollback mechanisms, and system health checks to improve delivery quality
Collaborate with Engineering Operations on telemetry, observability, and operational readiness initiatives
Foster a culture of ownership, resilience, and engineering excellence within and beyond the SRE team
What we look for:
10+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or reliability engineering, including 3–6 years managing high-performing teams
Proven track record building CI/CD systems and deployment frameworks using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Spinnaker
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management systems
Strong grasp of SRE principles, change safety, and production readiness standards
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go
Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration and platform adoption efforts
Excellent communicator who can distill technical topics into clear, actionable insights
Growth mindset with a passion for delivering value through automation and iteration
Bonus:
Familiarity with GitOps workflows or progressive delivery patterns
Experience integrating observability tooling with deployment platforms
Knowledge of container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes
About Ridgeline
Ridgeline is the industry cloud platform for investment management. It was founded by visionary tech entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday) to apply his successful formula of solving operational business challenges with bold innovation and human connectivity to the unique needs of the investment management industry.
Ridgeline started with a clean sheet of paper and a deep bench of experts bound by a set of core values and motivated to revolutionize an industry underserved by its current tech offerings. We are building a new, modern platform in the public cloud, purpose-built for the investment management industry and we are prioritizing security, agility, and usability to empower business like never before.
With a growing campus in Reno and offices in New York, Lake Tahoe, and the Bay Area, Ridgeline is proud to have built a fast-growing, people-first company that has been recognized by Fast Company as a “Best Workplace for Innovators,” by The Software Report as a “Top 100 Software Company,” and by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers.”
Ridgeline is proud to be a community-minded, discrimination-free equal opportunity workplace.
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Compensation and Benefits
The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including, the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.
The typical starting salary range for this role is: $200,000 - $235,000.
The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is: $212,000 - $250,000.
Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above.
As an employee at Ridgeline, you’ll have many opportunities for advancement in your career and can make a true impact on the product.
In addition to the base salary, 100% of Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement. We also offer rich benefits that reflect the kind of organization we want to be: one in which our employees feel valued and are inspired to bring their best selves to work. These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans. Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.
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