Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at Invoca
United States
$190k - $250k
<h1><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>Sr Manager, Site Reliability Engineering</strong></span></h1><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">About Invoca</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Invoca is an AI-powered revenue execution platform that brings together marketing, commerce, and contact center teams to turn every customer interaction into measurable, profitable growth. Join our dynamic, fast-growing team, where innovation and collaboration are at the core of our culture.</span></p><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">About the team</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Reliability Engineering builds and runs the platform the rest of Invoca ships on. Real-time call routing, audio processing, transcription, and data storage all run on the infrastructure this team owns, across the US and EU, under PCI, SOC 2, and ISO obligations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Invoca believes in service ownership. Engineering teams are on call 24/7 for what they build, not just SRE. Leadership acts as an escalation point and joins the incident commander rotation roughly two days per month.</span></p><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">About the role</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Invoca is building an agentic development environment, one where software is designed, written, tested, deployed, and operated with AI as a first-class collaborator. Infrastructure is where that gets real or doesn't: agents move fast, and the platform underneath them is what makes that safe. The fastest-growing consumer of infrastructure operations isn't a person clicking through a portal, it's software. That’s what we’re building for.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">You help shape where it goes next. Getting there starts with shedding weight: finding where we can leverage partners and managed services, building self-service paths engineers and agents can both use safely, and retiring what we shouldn't be running at all.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">This is not a caretaking role. You'd inherit a capable team with deep knowledge of our systems, being asked to work differently than it has. You bring outside perspective: you've built and run infrastructure teams elsewhere and you arrive with a specific point of view on what great looks like.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">This position reports to the Senior Director, Infrastructure & Security.</span></p><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">What you'll do</span></h2><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Lead the evolution of Invoca's infrastructure</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Decide what we run and what we don't. We keep a system in-house only when it differentiates us. Apply that test system by system and find the right home.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Land the move from self-hosted to managed Kubernetes making sure the operational expertise stays with us.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Reduce what the team carries operationally so capacity goes toward building and not maintenance.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Own the technical direction for the platform your team runs, partnering with Developer Enablement, Infosec, and architecture where decisions reach beyond it.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Lead the team and own the 3-month delivery plan</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Lead a team of 8 SREs with deep systems knowledge. Set a clear bar, give people the feedback and context to hit it, and invest in the growth of the team.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Own and execute the rolling 3-month delivery plan: translate infrastructure strategy into clear priorities, navigate ambiguity, and hold full accountability for shipping high-impact work.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Represent SRE where infrastructure decisions get made, and be in architecture and planning conversations before your team is needed.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Work alongside a leadership team including a tech lead, architect, and your engineering management cohort to solve problems bigger than any one team.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Build infrastructure with agents in mind</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Drive a pipeline, not a bottleneck. Work the team does on another team's behalf becomes a callable API with a policy decision attached — invoked by an agent or a person with the same governance and the same audit trail.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Extend policy and scanning controls so agent-driven infrastructure change is safe by default rather than safe by review.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Define clean boundaries and contracts between infrastructure and the product teams that build on it.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Win on adoption, not mandate. The path with policy and audit attached has to also be the fastest one available for an agent or a person.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Build for the agentic development era</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Use AI and agentic workflows in how the team builds and operates infrastructure: agent-assisted development, automated incident detection and triage, self-healing deployments, drift and policy detection.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Establish safe, observable, and auditable ways to bring AI into how we build and run infrastructure, and help the teams around you adopt them with confidence.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Standardize and multiply engineering leverage</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Build shared practices and tooling for infrastructure that every team can adopt, replacing one-off, team-specific approaches.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Treat infrastructure as a product with internal users: define adoption goals and measure whether teams are actually better off because of your work.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Connect the infrastructure to business outcomes</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Translate technical decisions in the platform into terms leadership and product teams care about: velocity, cost, risk, customer trust, and revenue impact.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Partner with engineering and product leadership to prioritize your work based on measurable business and customer impact, not technical elegance alone.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">What we're looking for</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">We're looking for an operator who moved into leadership: someone who has grown infrastructure teams, holds a high bar, and is deeply invested in the people on them. You're the right shape for this role if you have:</span></p><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">5+ years hands-on in an SRE, DevOps, systems, or infrastructure engineering role, and 3+ years directly managing teams in one of those disciplines.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Real depth across the platforms we run on:</span></p><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Cloud infrastructure in AWS/GCP</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Kubernetes</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and policy-as-code for governing it</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">GitOps and continuous delivery (ArgoCD and Atlantis)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Linux (configured via Chef)</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">MySQL</span></p></li></ul></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Strong opinions about infrastructure design and automation, held with an open mind, and the judgment to use both what exists today and where the industry is heading to guide decisions.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Significant experience as a hiring manager — you know what strong looks like at this level because you've hired it — and a track record of inheriting a team and raising its performance through development, hiring, and clear expectations.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">You can work alongside highly skilled external specialists, able to hold your own technically, and can hold them to a high bar.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">A working point of view on AI in infrastructure work: where it genuinely accelerates the work and where it doesn't, what output you can trust and what needs a gate, and how to raise a whole team's fluency rather than leaving it to individuals.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Effective in a remote-first, asynchronous culture, and able to report complex technical progress in terms a non-engineering audience can act on.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">How you work</span></h2><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>Direct and kind.</strong> You say the hard thing in the room, not afterward, and you receive feedback the same way.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>High agency.</strong> You act without waiting for permission on reversible decisions and own the outcome either way. No work is beneath you.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>You raise the bar.</strong> You think from first principles rather than accepting how things have been done, and you don't reward work that's merely fine.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>You make it safe to not know.</strong> A high bar and a safe team are not in tension — people have to be able to ask, dissent, and be wrong without paying for it, or you never hear the thing you needed to hear. Nobody is made small for the gap between where they are and where the bar is.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>You bring intensity.</strong> Deadlines in days where the work allows, a rough first version to get real feedback, risk flagged early, and you finish what you start.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>You dig for the real problem.</strong> When someone asks for something, you understand what they're trying to accomplish before responding.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;"><strong>You disagree productively and commit fully.</strong> Decisions you deliver to your team are yours, not something handed down.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">How success will be measured</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Within 12 months, success in this role will look like:</span></p><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">The team's performance is legible without you in the room. Reliability, delivery, and operational load metrics are reviewed regularly and someone outside SRE could tell whether the team and the platform had a good month.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">When asked, internal customers are delighted when using our infrastructure and working with our team.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">The team builds for those using the platform, not those running it. What gets prioritized traces back to what other teams actually need, dates are met reliably enough that people plan around them, and the volume of work routed to your team for execution has materially dropped.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Agents are a first-class consumer of the platform. Routine infrastructure change happens through interfaces a person or an agent uses identically, with the same identity, policy, and audit trail.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">Capacity freed by the platform transition went somewhere visible — reinvested in work the team chose, not absorbed into maintenance that grew to fill it.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Inter, sans-serif;">The team’s work has a demonstrable, articulable connection to business or customer outcomes.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>📍 Location: This is a remote-first role. We are currently hiring in the following locations: 📍</em></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>United States: </em></strong><em>Greater Los Angeles Area (including Santa Barbara and San Diego) · SF Bay Area · Denver Metro · Austin Metro · Chicago Metro · Greater NYC Area · Seattle Metro</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Candidates must be based within ~2 hour drive of these areas. Occasional business travel may be required.</em></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p></p><h1><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Compensation, Benefits & Perks:</span></h1><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At Invoca, we believe great work starts with taking care of our people. That's why we offer competitive compensation and benefits designed to support your health, your family, your growth, and your life outside of work. For teammates in the U.S., health benefits begin on your first day of employment.</span></p><p></p><h2><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Compensation</span></h2><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Base Salary: $190,000–$250,000*</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Variable Compensation: Bonus and/or commission eligibility, where applicable.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Equity: All employees are invited to share in Invoca's success through our stock option program.</span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><em>*Actual compensation will depend on factors including experience, skills, and location.</em></span><br></p><h2><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Benefits & Perks</span></h2><p></p><h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Health & Wellbeing</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Day-One Health Benefits – Medical, dental, and vision coverage begins on your first day of employment for U.S.-based teammates.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mental Wellbeing – Access to mental wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wellness Subsidy – Reimbursement that can be applied toward gym memberships, fitness classes, and more.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Time Away</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Flexible Time Off – We encourage a healthy work-life balance. Our flexible paid time off policy gives you the flexibility to recharge and take time away when you need it.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Paid Holidays – Invoca provides 20 U.S. paid holidays, including a winter break, giving you time to rest, recharge, and spend time with friends and family.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Paid Family Leave – Up to 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for baby bonding, adoption, and caring for family members.*</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Paid Medical Leave – Up to 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for childbirth and medical needs.*</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Growth & Career</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Enterprise-Grade AI Tools – Access to industry-leading enterprise AI tools, including leading LLMs and agentic AI workflow solutions to help you maximize productivity and work more effectively.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Professional Development – Annual reimbursement of up to $1,000 per fiscal year to support learning, certifications, conferences, and other professional development opportunities.</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Financial Benefits</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">401(k) – Invoca offers a 401(k) plan through Fidelity with a company match of up to 4%.*</span></p></li></ul><h3><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Recognition & Community</span></h3><ul><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Recognition Programs – We celebrate great work through company-wide and team recognition programs, including President's Club and quarterly and departmental awards recognizing innovation, execution, and customer impact.</span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">InVacation (Sabbatical) – As a thank-you to our long-term team members, we offer a sabbatical after seven years of service.</span></p></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><em>*Some benefits may vary for teammates outside the U.S. based on local laws, regulations, and country-specific offerings.</em></span></p>
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