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Director of Site Reliability Engineering

ExecutivePlacements.com
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/25/2026
A Bit About Us

We are a mission-driven organization dedicated to making AI adoption safe and secure for enterprises worldwide. As the leading provider of Security for AI, our platform protects agentic, generative, and predictive AI applications across the entire lifecyclesafeguarding intellectual property, ensuring compliance, and enabling organizations to innovate with confidence.

Our team was founded by cybersecurity and machine learning veterans who experienced a real adversarial AI attack firsthand. That moment led to the creation of a new category focused entirely on protecting machine learning systems from threats such as prompt injection, adversarial manipulation, model theft, and supply chain compromise.

Backed by strategic investors including Microsofts Venture Fund (M12), Moore Strategic Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Capital One Ventures, we combine patented technology with industry-leading research to defend the worlds most critical AI systems.

Recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for AI Security and trusted by Fortune 500 organizations, government agencies, and enterprises across highly regulated industries, we are shaping the future of AI security in real time. With strong productmarket fit and rapid growth, this is an opportunity to join a generational company at a true inflection pointwhere the mission is bold, the bar is high, and the room for impact and growth is unmatched.

Why join us?

Top Benefits of Working Here

  • Be part of a new, fast-growing category

Work at the forefront of AI security, an emerging space with massive demand and almost no competition.

  • High-impact mission

Your work protects mission-critical AI systems for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and regulated industries.

  • Cutting-edge engineering

Tackle challenges in AI/ML security, adversarial defense, model protection, and large-scale distributed systems.

  • Backed by top-tier investors

Strong funding and stability from groups like Microsofts venture fund, IBM Ventures, and others.

  • Build from the ground up

Shape the SRE, platform, and reliability culturethis is not a legacy environment.

  • High autonomy & ownership

Influence roadmap, architecture, tooling, and direction. Your work is visible and meaningful.

  • Fully remote,

Flexibility, work-life balance, and a high-performance culture.

  • Competitive pay real equity upside

Top-tier compensation with equity at a company in a hyper-growth phase.

  • Elite team & steep career growth

Collaborate with seasoned leaders in cybersecurity, ML, and enterprise infrastructureand grow as the company grows.

Job Details

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Remote United States

We are seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead the broader Platform Engineering organization with a strategic focus on building a world-class SRE function. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the mission-critical AI security platform used by enterprises and government organizations worldwide.

In this senior leadership role, you will define the SRE strategy, mentor and scale a high-performing team, and implement the systems, practices, and culture required to support rapid growth. You will work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI security technology and enterprise-grade infrastructure, ensuring the platform delivers the always-on performance our customers depend on.

Your work will directly strengthen the security posture of organizations protecting their most valuable AI assetsfrom financial institutions and healthcare providers to government and Fortune 500 enterprises.

What Youll Do

Build and Lead the SRE Function

Define and execute the SRE strategy and roadmap, positioning reliability as a core product feature

Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing SRE and Platform Engineering team

Establish SRE principles, culture, and best practices across engineering

Create clear career development paths and raise the bar for hiring and excellence

Drive Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

Own reliability, availability, latency, and performance across multi-cloud, multi-region deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Set and achieve SLOs/SLIs aligned with business objectives

Architect multi-region resiliency: automated failover, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery

Build robust observability: distributed tracing, metrics, logging, and actionable alerting

Lead incident management: on-call processes, incident command, blameless post-mortems, and systematic remediation

Enable Developer Velocity & Platform Excellence

Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure for safe, fast, reliable delivery

Build internal developer platforms and tooling that reduce toil and improve productivity

Implement progressive delivery (canaries, feature flags, automated rollbacks)

Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability requirements and design patterns early in development

Security, Compliance & Enterprise Requirements

Ensure alignment with standards such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other regulatory requirements

Build and support air-gapped and on-premises deployment capabilities

Implement infrastructure security controls, secrets management, and audit logging

Support customer-facing SLAs and maintain trust with enterprise and government clients

Scale & Optimize the Platform

Lead capacity planning and performance engineering for platform growth

Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing to validate system behavior under failure

Optimize cost while maintaining reliability and performance

Automate operational workflows to eliminate toil and improve efficiency

What You Bring

Leadership & Experience

8 years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE roles

4 years in engineering leadership

Experience supporting mission-critical, always-on systems at enterprise scale

Strong people leadership and a track record of building high-performing teams

Technical Expertise

Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and multi-region systems

Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)

Proven ability to build and operate large-scale distributed systems

Expertise in observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, ELK/EFK, distributed tracing)

Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages

Understanding of databases, data pipelines, message queues, and caching systems

Strategic & Operational Skills

Experience driving SRE strategy, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and incident management

Ability to partner across engineering, product, security, and customer success

Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Pragmatic problem-solving and sound decision-making

Bonus Experience

Background in cybersecurity or AI/ML infrastructure

Familiarity with compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST)

Experience supporting air-gapped or on-premise deployments

Hands-on experience with chaos engineering and game day exercises

Open-source contributions or SRE community leadership

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

Impact: Define reliability strategy for a category-leading AI security platform

Growth: Build and scale the SRE function from the ground up in a fast-growing, well-funded environment

Mission: Work on technology that is shaping the future of secure AI adoption

Team: Join a world-class engineering organization with deep roots in security, ML, and distributed systems

Innovation: Solve novel problems at the intersection of AI, security, and infrastructure

Flexibility: Fully remote role with competitive compensation, equity, and benefits

Location & Work Environment

This is a fully remote position within the United States. We value flexibility, ownership, collaboration, and excellence. The team operates across time zones with a blend of async communication, regular syncs, and purposeful in-person gatherings.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any legally protected status. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all team members can thrive.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

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