Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Fully Remote within North America

We’re looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing infrastructure team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-native applications. In this role, you will be instrumental in managing and evolving our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, and improving development workflows through automation and reliability engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Own the stability and performance of our entire software platform, with a core focus on our EKS-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
• Drive cost-efficiency across all infrastructure layers—identify opportunities for savings and lead implementation.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment of applications across environments.
• Manage and enhance our infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform and Helm.
• Build and maintain systems for observability, including alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and auto-healing mechanisms.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, BI analysts, and stakeholders across all departments to ensure infrastructure is aligned with business and technical goals.
• Champion best practices for SRE, DevOps, and cloud-native development.

What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in an SRE, DevOps, or similar infrastructure-focused role (4+ for Senior, 2+ for Mid).
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and AWS (EKS experience highly preferred).
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration.
• Proficient with Bash scripting and comfortable troubleshooting in Linux environments.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices, ideally using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience, particularly with Terraform.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to Haves

• Python or Go programming experience.
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, and Grafana.
• Knowledge of Karpenter, Helm, and autoscaling practices within EKS.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• A strong eye for optimizing both system performance and cloud costs.

Soft Skills

• A self-starter with the ability to learn independently.
• A natural collaborator who thrives in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical thinking with a practical approach to solving complex infrastructure problems.
• Clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal.

 

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Why Join Us?
You’ll be joining a fast-paced, collaborative, and supportive environment where infrastructure is recognized as a core part of product delivery. You’ll have the opportunity to make a major impact on platform reliability, developer productivity, and cost-efficiency.

Apply today to help us shape the future of our platform and build systems that scale with our growth!