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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Wed, Sep 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Setting the reliability strategy for the platform, the full-time Principal Site Reliability Engineer will define deployment and operational standards for distributed systems, ensuring reliability and automation across customer environments while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Own the reliability architecture of the platform, including deployment topology and automation for reproducible environments
  • Define service level objectives and drive initiatives to meet them in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
  • Lead major incidents and postmortems, ensuring corrective actions are implemented effectively
Required qualifications
  • 10+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering with experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • Expertise in designing and troubleshooting distributed systems and making reliability decisions under growth
  • Deep experience with at least one major public cloud provider and proficiency in container orchestration
  • Strong scripting and automation skills, along with familiarity in reading and debugging application code
  • Experience operating within enterprise security and compliance frameworks

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