• Build and lead a new SRE team, including hiring, onboarding, and career development • Define and implement SRE best practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on-call models, and postmortems • Establish clear operational ownership between SRE and product engineering teams • Drive reliability as a feature, balancing velocity and stability with data—not vibes • Reduce toil through automation and self-service platforms • Design and evolve incident response, escalation, and learning loops (no blame, lots of learning) • Partner with engineering leaders to influence architecture, capacity planning, and launch readiness • Own reliability metrics and communicate risk and performance clearly to technical and executive audiences