Job description
About us
Coalition is the world’s first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. This team plays a pivotal role in designing, building, and operating the foundational platform that powers our core products and services. The Platform SRE team is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our cloud-based infrastructure, driving operational excellence, and enabling developer productivity through a robust “paved road” experience.
This is a high-impact role requiring a strong leader who can manage a talented team of engineers, align engineering efforts with business goals, and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. The ideal candidate will combine technical breadth, people management expertise, and agile project leadership to deliver on the team’s mission.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing SRE team, hiring and growing world-class talent.
- Foster team growth by mentoring engineers, identifying skill gaps, and managing career development plans.
- Manage performance effectively, balancing recognition of achievements with constructive feedback and coaching.
- Drive the development and operation of reliable, scalable, and secure platform infrastructure.
- Provide guidance on cloud-based architectures, distributed systems, and service-oriented design.
- Partner with engineering teams to enhance operational readiness, ensure observability, and optimize for reliability and scalability.
- Balance managing technical debt with delivering new features and meeting business priorities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize team deliverables and align on roadmaps.
- Track and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Be a leader for reliability, operational best practices, and customer-focused solutions.
Skills and Qualifications
- 7+ years of overall SRE or Software engineering experience, with 3+ years managing a team of at least 5 engineers.
- Demonstrated success in hiring, growing, and managing diverse engineering teams.
- Broad technical depth across modern cloud-based technologies and architectures (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
- Strong foundational knowledge in software engineering principles, reliability engineering, and distributed systems.
- Experience building and operating platform infrastructure at scale, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response.
- Proficiency in agile planning and execution, with a strong track record of delivering features and platform capabilities.
- A customer-centric approach to solving platform challenges and driving developer enablement through the use of tooling and/or internal development platforms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and functions.
- Technical background to objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
- Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities.
Bonus Points
- Experience in reliability engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles.
- Proficiency with service-oriented architectures, Kubernetes, or service mesh technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud cost management and optimization strategies.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, risk management, or insurance-related platforms.
Compensation
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $154,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $227,700/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee’s pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.
Perks
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs like One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all potential candidates: Coalition primarily does not use third-party recruiting services. Potential candidates will only be contacted by Coalition, Inc. during the recruitment process. You can always verify any opportunity on our official careers page http://www.coalitioninc.com/careers.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
