Tech Lead Manager, Site Reliability

🕒 September 14

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Niche

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2002

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Marketplace • Non-profit

Niche is a platform that simplifies the search for educational institutions, ranging from K-12 schools to colleges and graduate schools. It provides users with data, reviews, and insights to help them find schools that fit their individual needs. Niche offers tools for comparing schools, tracking the application process, and accessing scholarships and financial aid information, making it easier for students and families to navigate the education landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead a 3–4-person Site Reliability team as its technical and people leader • Contribute directly to SRE and platform work, incident response, infrastructure automation, and tooling • Own technical debt and infrastructure modernization within the team's scope • Maintain deep technical understanding of observability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure projects • Own reliability and performance metrics, incident response effectiveness, and platform tool adoption • Guide technical direction through system design, architectural consultation, hands-on code review, and technical decisions • Manage career development, performance, hiring, and team health • Shape and implement Agile Scrum or Kanban development processes with engineering leadership • Balance delivery urgency with quality and reliability • Model AI-assisted development practices • Participate in on-call rotation and improve response times and repeated notifications • Lead technical decisions, architectural direction, process evolution, and technical issue prevention milestones

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, current hands-on software engineering experience, including regular code writing and review • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience • 3+ years of professional platform engineering experience incorporating DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering principles • Prior experience owning technical direction or people management, with readiness to take on both • Comfort operating without a separate Tech Lead • Experience with distributed systems and platforms such as AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), kops, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Postgres, Kafka/MSK, Redis/Valkey, or equivalent platforms • Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies • Experience with Golang, TypeScript, and React is a plus • Experience with or strong aptitude for AI-assisted development tooling and workflows • Track record of making pragmatic technical trade-offs under delivery pressure • Experience with, or openness to evolving, agile/Scrum-based team processes • Excellent verbal and written collaboration and communication skills • Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual Bonus and Stock Option Program • Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy • Work-from-home office stipend • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all employees • Short-term disability for birthing parents • 401(k) with employer match • Fully flexible workforce with remote work, Pittsburgh office, or a combination • Equal opportunity workplace and inclusive environment

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