Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Saviynt; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Medium is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer in Vancouver, WA, focused on building and maintaining shared infrastructure services. The ideal candidate will have 9+ years of experience, particularly with Kubernetes, Go and Python programming, and a customer-centric mindset.

This role demands strong technical skills in multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. A competitive salary ranging from $260,000 to $275,000 annually is offered.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in Infrastructure Development, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python.
• Proven experience designing and implementing event-driven architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain shared infrastructure services and platforms.
• Architect, implement, and manage scalable Kubernetes platforms.
• Develop tools for infrastructure management using Go (Golang).
• Establish observability and monitoring platforms for self-service insights.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Go (Golang) programming

Python programming

Cloud Provider experience

CI/CD pipeline tools

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems design

Observability and monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

GitLab CI

AWS

Azure

Job description

Security & Compliance

This role requires compliance with Saviynt’s information security and privacy policies, including annual security training.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services and platforms that our product and application teams depend on.
• Create reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity, enabling other teams to focus on core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi‑cloud environment.
• Architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers.
• Develop robust internal‑facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management using Go (Golang).
• Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), focusing on reusable patterns and modules for other teams.
• Design and implement shared event‑driven architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI and ArgoCD) as a service, providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams.
• Design and build resilient distributed systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• Manage and optimize shared infrastructure across multi‑region cloud environments, ensuring platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers.
• Establish and enhance centralized observability and monitoring platforms and tools that provide self‑service insights for consuming teams.
• Define and implement clear, well‑documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services built.
• Implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g., Envoy, Istio) capabilities for traffic management, security, and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services.
• Design, implement, and optimize highly available relational database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use.
• Collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points, providing technical guidance and support.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure built.

What You Bring

• 9+ years of experience in an Infrastructure Development, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role, with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform (single‑tenant and multi‑tenant deployment architectures).
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, building robust, maintainable backend services and automation.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi‑cloud experience is a strong plus.
• Proven experience designing and implementing event‑driven architecture and message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RMQ, NATS) as shared services.
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and establishing automated delivery processes for other teams.
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating distributed systems, with patterns for reliable, shared components.
• Familiarity with multi‑region cloud environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platforms.
• Proficiency in establishing and utilizing comprehensive observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for shared infrastructure.
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well‑documented, consumable APIs.
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context.
• Hands‑on experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL), ideally managing them as a service.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• A strong customer‑centric mindset, treating internal development teams as the primary customers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical or military experience.

$260,000 - $275,000 a year