Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Jobtailor

Arizona

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience to lead reliability across services, drive incidents response, and set standards in observability, automation, and cloud architectures.

You will collaborate with Software Engineering teams to improve SLIs/SLOs, implement CI/CD and IaC, and reduce toil through reusable patterns while ensuring production readiness.

Qualifications

15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, SRE, or related fields.
Bachelor's degree in CS or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
Use data, evidence, experimentation, and engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide decisions.
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health measures.
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and instrumentation.
Drive CI/CD, IaC, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.
Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate experience into code, architecture, tooling, and practices.
Partner with software teams to improve reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and on-call operations.
Participate in or lead incident response and blameless post-incident learning.
Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for critical production incidents and impact engineering practices.
Reduce operational toil through reusable patterns and automation.
Establish enterprise direction and multiply engineering capability.

Skills

15+ years exp

AWS

CI/CD

SLIs/SLOs

Incident management

Observability

Automation

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Monitoring Tools

Logging Tools

Dashboards

Containers

Orchestration

Job description

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered
Use data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health measures
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience and operational readiness
Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices
Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning
Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for critical production incidents and influence engineering practices that improve incident response, escalation, service restoration, and sustainable on-call operations
Reduce operational toil and unnecessary manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and better engineering practices
Establish enterprise technical direction, develop senior technical leaders, and multiply the capability of the broader engineering organization

Requirements

Typically 15+ years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, or a comparable technical discipline
Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages
Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills appropriate to the scope of the role
Preferred hands-on experience with AWS or comparable experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation
Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness
Experience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Must independently possess eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire
Position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps principles, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and incident management. Proficient in leveraging cloud technologies, particularly AWS, to enhance system reliability and operational readiness.

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