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Grammarly is hiring an Engineering Manager, SRE to lead and grow the Infrastructure Team while managing all phases of the Site Reliability Engineering lifecycle. The role involves scaling cloud infrastructure, coordinating with engineering teams for operational services, and supporting enterprise customers through SLOs and incident management.

Highlights

Lead and expand Grammarly’s SRE Infrastructure Team by hiring and coaching SRE and DevOps personnel.
Develop and execute plans to scale cloud infrastructure with AWS, GCP, or Azure in alignment with the company roadmap.
Coordinate cross-engineering teams to provide necessary services and support incident management as an Incident Commander.
Manage and support enterprise customers via service level objectives (SLOs) and incident reporting.
Require 5+ years of SRE experience and 2+ years managing SRE/DevOps teams, including remote teams.
Experience with Kubernetes or equivalent container management systems.
Hands-on approach to scaling the software stack and familiarity with the SRE software lifecycle.
Compensation ranges from $260,000 to $340,000 per year depending on location and experience.
Offers comprehensive benefits including health care, retirement matching, paid leave, stipends, and professional development budget.
Emphasizes company values of ethics, adaptability, grit, empathy, and remarkable performance, aligned with customer-centric MOVE principles.

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Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an SRE Manager to lead our Infrastructure Team. This role will be hands-on as we build out an SRE team at Grammarly and involve all phases of the SRE lifecycle, from planning to incident management.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers can innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As an Engineering Manager, SRE, you will

Grow the existing team by hiring people.
Develop plans to support Grammarly’s roadmap and scale our cloud infrastructure to keep pace with the load.
Coordinate with all engineering teams to provide them with the services needed to run their systems.
Provide support and visibility for enterprise customers via SLOs and incident reports.

Qualifications

Has 5+ years of experience as an SRE and 2+ years of experience managing a team of SREs and DevOps.
Familiar with at least one of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Support incidents as an Incident Commander.
Familiar with the SRE software lifecycle.
Experience managing people remotely.
Familiarity with Kubernetes or another equivalent container management system.
Willing to get our hands dirty in scaling our software stack.
Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
Disability and life insurance options
401(k) and RRSP matching
Paid parental leave
20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

United States:

Zone 1: $260,000 – $340,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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Original Job Description

About Grammarly

The Opportunity

As an Engineering Manager, SRE, you will

Grow the existing team by hiring people.
Develop plans to support Grammarly’s roadmap and scale our cloud infrastructure to keep pace with the load.
Coordinate with all engineering teams to provide them with the services needed to run their systems.
Provide support and visibility for enterprise customers via SLOs and incident reports.

Qualifications

Has 5+ years of experience as an SRE and 2+ years of experience managing a team of SREs and DevOps.
Familiar with at least one of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Support incidents as an Incident Commander.
Familiar with the SRE software lifecycle.
Experience managing people remotely.
Familiarity with Kubernetes or another equivalent container management system.
Willing to get our hands dirty in scaling our software stack.
Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
Disability and life insurance options
401(k) and RRSP matching
Paid parental leave
20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
Annual professional development budget and opportunities

United States:

Zone 1: $260,000 – $340,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

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