Director of Engineering, SRE and Platform

About Magic

Magic helps developers make product adoption frictionless, secure, and non-custodial while giving end-users more control of their online identity. We’re experiencing high growth as more companies adopt Web3 technologies.

To date, Magic has enabled over 100,000 developers and enterprises to onboard over 10 million users to their apps — and we continue to grow rapidly. We are trusted by major brands such as Mattel, Macy’s, ImmutableX, Niftys, & OpenSea. We are backed by top investors such as Tiger Global, Lightspeed Ventures, SV Angel, Social Capital, Northzone, Placeholder, Naval Ravikant, Alexis Ohanian, and Balaji Srinivasan.

If you are excited to help onboard the next billion users to a useful, accessible, and safe Web3, let’s chat!

The Role

As the Director of SRE at Magic, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability and availability of the infrastructure and core service layers that Magic rests upon, and allow all the different parts of Magic to work smoothly together.

Requirements

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the organization's infrastructure and systems
• Develop, drive and execute a long-term vision and strategy for infrastructure and core services to be leveraged by all of Magic’s products
• Define and drive reliability best practices and improvements across the organization’s boundaries while setting clear measures of success across Magic
• Deliver and maintain a long-term roadmap for core service capabilities and supported interfaces for development
• Provide technical oversight and guidance to the team to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget
• Lead infrastructure incident response and disaster recovery efforts
• Support the reliable operation of the systems as a Platform for Magic products, and allow the company to rapidly deliver reliable, performant, and scalable services to our customers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement new technologies and tools to improve infrastructure and core service operations
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in infrastructure engineering to ensure the organization stays competitive
• Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards
• Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles at a company scale

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in software and infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in the SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering space
• Strong technical background in software and infrastructure engineering and operations
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, or GCP
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically
• Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance requirements for infrastructure operations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Benefits

Benefits

• Fully remote team and flexible working hours
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited paid time off
• 99% coverage of platinum-level Health, Vision, and Dental insurance
• 401(k) program
• $300 monthly budget for home office needs and professional development
• Annual team meetups
• Discretionary performance bonus

Compensation Range

• $265k-$325k

At Magic, we believe building a team full of diverse perspectives and experiences is vital to success. We strongly encourage anyone who has been historically under-represented in tech to apply for this role. Magic does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, citizenship status, age or physical ability. Empathy, authenticity, and inclusivity are at the core of all we do.