Principal SRE Engineer: Scale Reliability & Resilience

PTC; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

PTC's Onshape is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (SRE) to ensure the long‑term reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our platform. This role is based in a hybrid Boston, MA setting and offers broad autonomy.

You will lead cross‑organization reliability initiatives, shape reliability strategy, and serve as a technical authority across engineering, driving availability, performance, and system resilience across the entire lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in reliability engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in design and operation of reliable Java services.
• Ability to identify systemic risks and drive architectural improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of reliability strategies for large-scale distributed systems.
• Guide architectural decisions and long-term system evolution to improve availability and performance.
• Identify systemic risks in architecture and data flows and drive improvements across teams.
• Set reliability standards and operational principles across R&D.

Skills

Java

Reliability engineering

System design

Job description

PTC's Onshape is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (SRE) to ensure the long‑term reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our platform. This role is based in a hybrid Boston, MA setting and offers broad autonomy.

You will lead cross‑organization reliability initiatives, shape reliability strategy, and serve as a technical authority across engineering, driving availability, performance, and system resilience across the entire lifecycle.