Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Who we are

Dave (Nasdaq: DAVE) is on a mission to build products that level the financial playing field. Our banking app helps millions of members bank, budget, find work, and access up to $500 ExtraCash™. With a growing suite of tools and services, we provide a superior banking experience for everyday Americans. We’re looking for high performers to be part of our journey to bring access to financial opportunity for everyone.

The role

As the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), you’ll lead a team of SREs and DBREs focused on building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across our GCP cloud and internal networks.

This is a people leadership role where you’ll shape our technical strategy while growing a high-performing team. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to reduce toil, improve service health, and drive forward our vision for automated, resilient infrastructure at scale.

Challenges you’ll tackle

• Balancing short-term firefighting with long-term infrastructure investment

• Scaling cloud infrastructure in a secure, cost-efficient way

• Leading high-context coaching for SREs navigating production systems and developer tooling

• Championing reliability as a product—baking it into how Dave builds, ships, and scales software

• Establishing SRE maturity and measurable reliability metrics across services

What you’ll do

• Lead and support a team of SREs and DBREs through performance management, mentoring, and career development

• Define and evolve the SRE roadmap—including reliability metrics, tooling, incident response, and service ownership

• Oversee the operation and scaling of our GCP infrastructure, VPN, ingress/egress, and internal networking

• Drive automation across CI/CD, observability, and service operations using tools like Terraform, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes

• Own incident response practices, root cause analyses, and postmortems

• Partner with product engineering teams to ensure platform reliability unlocks member experience

• Influence long-term strategy across reliability, performance, disaster recovery, and cost management

What success looks like

In your first 30 days:

• Build context on Dave’s infrastructure, platform architecture, and reliability challenges

• Deep dive into our GCP environment—understand how it’s configured, where it’s brittle, and where it can scale

• Provide informed input and recommendations on infrastructure improvements, based on your experience and GCP best practices

In your first 60 days:

• Lead prioritized changes to improve system reliability and developer experience

• Partner cross-functionally to draft and socialize the FY26 roadmap for cloud infrastructure and reliability investments

• Begin to operationalize reliability goals (e.g., SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction metrics)

In your first 90 days:

• Design and validate long-term solutions that will define what “great” looks like for Dave’s cloud infrastructure in FY26

• Help your team build the foundations for scale: automation, observability, service ownership, and platform resilience

• Be seen as a trusted leader—coaching your team, influencing peers, and pushing the bar for SRE maturity

What you’ll bring

• 6+ years in infrastructure, site reliability, or cloud engineering roles, with 2–3+ years of experience leading SRE or infrastructure teams

• Deep experience operating systems in GCP (compute, IAM, storage, networking, etc.)

• Hands-on skills with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and Kubernetes

• Strong communication skills—you bridge engineering and business priorities clearly

• A mindset of mentorship, experimentation, and empathy for developers and members

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with MySQL, Redis, Spanner, GraphQL, or API gateways

• Background in fintech or regulated environments

• Familiarity with AI tooling or developer agents

Don’t let imposter syndrome get in your way of an incredible opportunity. We’re looking for people who can help us achieve our mission and vision, not just check off the boxes. If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why you’ll love working here: 

At Dave, our people are just as important as our product. Our culture is a reflection of our values that guide who we are, how we work, and what we aspire to be. Daves are member centric, helpful, transparent, persistent, and better together. We strive to create an environment where all Daves feel valued, heard, and empowered to do their best work. As a virtual first company, team members can live and work anywhere in the United States, with the exception of Hawaii. 

A few of our benefits & perks:

💚 Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals

💻 Flexible hours and virtual first work culture with a home office stipend

🏥 Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans

👶 Generous paid parental and caregiver leave

💰 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions

📈 Financial advisor and financial wellness support

🏖️ Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break

🎉 All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team

Dave Operating LLC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is dedicated to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants and do not discriminate on any basis protected by federal, state, or local law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.

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