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Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Nov 06, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support critical engineering infrastructure, the full-time Principal Site Reliability Engineer will administer and troubleshoot large-scale Unix/Linux environments, ensuring high availability and performance for global development teams, while working in a hybrid role based in Sunnyvale, California.

Key responsibilities
  • Administer and troubleshoot large scale Unix/Linux environments supporting business-critical engineering workloads
  • Support grid and HPC infrastructure running workload schedulers for compute-intensive engineering jobs
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues affecting job execution, scheduling, and system performance
Required qualifications
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience administering Unix/Linux systems in complex production environments
  • Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems and performance troubleshooting
  • Experience with large scale infrastructure or server environments impacting engineering productivity
  • Proficient in scripting and automation using shell, Python, Perl, or similar languages
  • Hands-on experience with workload management technologies like IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, or Grid Engine

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