Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Stellar

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">SDF is looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a small, high-leverage SRE team and help shape how engineering teams own, operate, and improve production services.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">This is a senior engineering leadership role reporting to the CTO. You will set the vision, operating model, and culture for SRE while owning the core infrastructure services that help SDF engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate software with confidence.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">Engineering teams at SDF own the services they build. SRE provides the frameworks, standards, shared infrastructure, tooling, observability practices, and enablement model that make strong service ownership possible across engineering.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will be successful here if you bring strong technical judgment, pragmatic leadership, and the ability to influence through trust, clarity, and execution. SDF is a small, mission-driven foundation with a broad technical surface area, so this role requires leverage, ownership, and a bias toward solving the right problems over creating processes for its own sake.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team, setting a clear vision, charter, operating model, priorities, and success measures.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define and roll out a Service Ownership &amp; Maturity Framework across engineering, with expectations that vary appropriately by service criticality.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own and improve core engineering infrastructure services, including cloud foundations, Kubernetes and compute patterns, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure automation.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help engineering teams become stronger owners and operators of their services through better standards, dashboards, runbooks, alerting, escalation paths, operational readiness, and deployment practices.</p></li><li><p style="mi