Site Reliability Engineering Tech Lead, DataHub
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Metadata management platform
Open for applications
Metadata management platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring clarity to data through a next generation multi-cloud metadata management platform.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps roles
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience managing engineering teams
- Strong expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure automation tools
- Proficiency in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages
- Deep understanding of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong knowledge of networking, security, and database operations in cloud environments
Desirable
- Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Background in developing customer-facing deployment and management tools
- Knowledge of data infrastructure and metadata management systems
- Experience with service mesh technologies and microservices architectures
- Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role or working with enterprise clients
- Experience with data governance or data catalog platforms
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Lead to join DataHub and drive the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our platform offerings. In this role, you'll lead technical initiatives across DataHub Cloud and our emerging enterprise deployment solution, which provides customers with enhanced control and flexibility for running DataHub in their preferred environments
- Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure solutions for DataHub Cloud and enterprise deployments
- Lead the technical vision for multi-cloud deployment strategies and distributed system integrations
- Architect monitoring, observability, and alerting systems across diverse environments
- Drive best practices for infrastructure as code, configuration management, and deployment automation
- Partner with product and engineering teams to influence the development of advanced deployment capabilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help build systems for seamless installation, upgrade, and rollback processes across various environments
- Influence the design and help implement comprehensive monitoring and health check systems for distributed deployments
- Partner with engineering teams to help develop self-healing and automated remediation capabilities
- Establish and maintain SLAs/SLOs for both cloud and enterprise offerings
- Lead incident response and post-mortem processes to drive continuous improvement
- Implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify system weaknesses
- Optimize system performance, capacity planning, and cost efficiency
- Mentor and guide a team of SRE engineers and collaborate with platform engineering teams
- Work closely with product, engineering, and customer success teams to ensure reliable product delivery
- Improve on-call practices, runbooks, and knowledge sharing processes
- Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve overall system reliability
- A robust management control plane for enterprise-grade deployments
- Automated deployment pipelines supporting multiple cloud providers and customer environments
- Comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems with customer-facing dashboards
- Self-service tools for customers to manage their DataHub installations
- Disaster recovery and backup solutions for enterprise deployments
- Performance optimization and scaling solutions for high-volume data workloads
Our take
Due to the increasing amount of diverse data types, companies face challenges in organising and analysing their stored data. This means data teams are overwhelmed as they accommodate data requests from within the company while striving to ensure consistent data policies are maintained.
One company tackling these data challenges is DataHub - formerly Acryl Data - a California-based startup that operates the DataHub Project, an open-source data catalogue. Alongside its data catalogue, the company offers a solution for data governance and observability. This managed service, DataHub Cloud, builds upon the open-source capabilities of the DataHub Project, introducing features that streamline the operational management of information.
Major companies such as Stripe and Pinterest already utilise DataHub, while Notion and Zendesk rely on its cloud service as their data management solution. This success has attracted the support of numerous investors, having raised an impressive $35 million in 2025. DataHub is now focused on expanding its R&D efforts, scaling its operations and further expanding its open-source community base.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$35m
SERIES B
Jun 2023
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Carrot Fertility Program
- Parental leave
- Remote friendly
- Work from home and monthly co-working space budget
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Swaroop Jagadish
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a M.S. in Computer Science. Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Yahoo!, LinkedIn and Airbnb.
Shirshanka Das
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer/Application Architect at Paypal, as a Principal Technical at Yahoo! and as a Senior then Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn.
John Joyce
(Co-Founder & Product & Engineering)Graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. Experienced Software Engineer having previously worked at Joyce & Bittner, SwoopIn, Visa, Cameo, and LinkedIn. Also co-founded SquadSnap and Float Tickets.
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