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Site Reliability Engineer Manager, Foundation - Seattle  

Why We Have This Role

We are looking for a support engineer who is interested in becoming a team lead or manager for an SRE team to support our Gov1 environment in the Foundation Product Unit. This person will lead a team of US based Support Engineers whose primary mission will be supporting Gov1 activities for non-US teams in the Foundation org. This is a unique opportunity to start the first SRE team at Qualtrics.

Must be able to access Gov1 Environment:

• Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder (permanent resident) 

• Must agree to Rules of Behavior for accessing Gov1 

• Rules generally entail:

• Following IT and Security policies with regards to access, control and device usage

• Protecting customer data and following policies around confidentiality

• Staying up to date with required company training

• Must be able to participate in on-call Rotation which will include the potential for off hour pages

How You’ll Find Success

• Lead and manage a team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams within Foundation locally and internationally
• Manage and prioritize the team’s day to day activities
• Define SLAs for various Gov1 Activities (patching, deployments, feature flippers, etc)
• Manage On-Call Rotation for Gov1 incidents on Foundation’s non-US teams
• Demonstrate great interpersonal skills and a desire to collaborate - both in-person and online
• Manage tasks and responsibilities as well as lead and delegate to team members
• Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills
• Identify setbacks and shortcomings.
• Show a strong interest in developing the SRE Role and what that looks like for Qualtrics
• Hire and develop a team of SE/SRE 

How You’ll Grow

• Building a team from the ground up
• Setting the right culture and expectations for your team
• Working with teams across the globe to understand their needs and use cases
• Finding opportunities to improve our processes and deployment

Things You’ll Do

• Partner with non-US Foundation teams to support their Gov1 needs and requirements
• Partner with non-US Foundation teams to triage and analyze customer reported issues in the Gov1 Environment 
• Automate as much as possible (builds, monitoring, alerting, etc)
• Define and implement best practices for site reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and managing costs.
• Identify trends in operations, quality, and performance and work with teams to prioritize, improve and operationalize
• Implement and monitor alerts based on quality and performance trends

What We’re Looking For On Your Resume 

• Ability to read code (like Java, Node, Go)
• Ability to read application logs
• Familiarity with one of the scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl or other)
• Ability to write SQL queries and execute common DB operations (extracts, mass delete, etc)
• Experience in diagnosing customer production issues
• Experience building and/or managing software deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken
• Analytical thinking
• Proactive approach to issues and trends 
• Experience as an SRE or SRE Lead

What You Should Know About This Team

• This is a new team that is forming out of a need to better support our Gov1 environment for non-US teams
• Since it is a new team you will have the ability to carve out how the team works and interacts with its internal customers
• The SRE role is new to Qualtrics and this position will help define it!

Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits

• We take pride in our offices design aiming at cultivating creativity from our rooftop views to open and collaborative work spaces
• On top of the standard benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc) we provide snacks, drinks, and free lunches in our office
• We believe in sharing Qualtrics success which is part of the compensation for all employees