Job Opportunities API

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen. We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.    The Role: Engineering Manager (Site Reliability) Location: Reporting to: London / Hybrid (2 days per week in office) Reporting to: Head of Technology Operations   The Role The Platform and Reliability Engineering Teams are responsible for the services that underpin the Rightmove website and enable all of our product development teams to ship functionality rapidly and safely. We strive to deliver annual availability of at least 99.99% (less than 5 mins downtime a month).    The Site Reliability Engineering Manager’s role is to ensure operational excellence, drive observability and reliability at scale, and own the incident management processes and tools.   This position blends people leadership, full stack reliability engineering, service management, influencing without authority. The successful candidate brings strong technical experience in reliability engineering, monitoring, alerting and observability for product‑led technology companies combined with strong customer empathy and communication skills.   Monitoring, Alerting, and Observability   Product teams have high reliability confidence, incident detection and resolution are smooth due to proactive monitoring, well‑maintained alerts/logs and high levels of observability coverage.   Clear reliability expectations between platform, security, product & business. Prioritisation based on reliability risk and real data.    Incident Management   Consistency and standardisation of incident management resulting fast incident detection and resolution Maintaining a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration & learning Good data quality, insights & decision‑making with strong feedback loops to all relevant stakeholders   Reliability Engineering   Clear reliability patterns and standards drive strong reliability and fewer cascading failures. E.g. probes, graceful termination/degradation, timeouts, retries, backoff, jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads.  Shared understanding how our system fails, where any weak points are with prioritised improvement plans in place.   Delivery and Execution   Own and manage reliability roadmap and metrics, initiatives/projects, and OKR delivery in line with expectations. Align reliability strategy and delivery plans with business goals, partnering with technical product manager, DX, CF, DBA, security, product and data teams.   People Leadership & Team Development   Supports team with objectives and growth plans to improve skills, confidence, and impact aligned with business objectives Guides engineers in designing scalable, secure, resilient platform services Create an inclusive, psychologically safe environment; tailor leadership to individual strengths and motivations.   What  you’ll  bring    Proven experience in site reliability engineering management, overseeing observability, monitoring, reliability, and service delivery in production environments. Understanding of reliability