Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

This principal-level individual contributor provides technical leadership for organization-wide site reliability, shaping strategy, architecture, and standards to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and availability of services. The role builds shared platforms and automation, guides service design and production readiness, advances observability and capacity planning, and mentors SRE teams while aligning reliability investments with business priorities.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, and/or cloud-based environments.
• 10+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure), including designing and operating large-scale systems.
• 5+ years of experience designing, operating, and maintaining applications and/or systems infrastructure in large-scale, customer-facing production environments.
• Demonstrated experience architecting and influencing large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure solutions.
• Experience coding in one or more higher-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C# or C++).
• Strong working knowledge of Linux systems, including troubleshooting, performance analysis, and scripting in production environments.
• Experience with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the organization's Site Reliability Engineering strategy, vision, and technical roadmap
• Guide the lifecycle of services from conception to end-of-life across the organization
• Establish and drive adoption of organization-wide standards and best practices
• Build and operate shared platforms, tooling, and frameworks
• Drive system performance, availability, and efficiency improvements across the organization
• Lead, mentor, and develop Site Reliability Engineering talent across multiple teams

Skills

Industry

Relocation