Principal SRE: Global, Multi-Cloud Reliability Leader

Saviynt; New York (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Saviynt seeks a Principal SRE to define and drive reliability across our SaaS platform. You will architect, implement, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure, build internal tools in Go, and ensure high availability across multi-region clouds.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product teams and on-call reliability practices. The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes production experience, strong Go/Python skills, and a customer-focused mindset, plus advanced GCP certification.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience as a Principal SRE focused on building tools for other engineers
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong Go and Python backend development skills
• Extensive cloud experience, especially GCP
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture and messaging systems (Kafka, RMQ, NATS)
• CI/CD experience with GitLab CI
• Distributed systems design and operation experience
• Observability/monitoring platforms expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• RESTful APIs design and documentation
• Service Mesh experience with Istio/Envoy
• Relational databases management (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Excellent communication and customer-focused mindset
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering or related field

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a reliability strategy for Saviynt’s SaaS platform
• Design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services
• Architect and manage Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal teams
• Develop internal tools and automation using Go
• Create reusable patterns for multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Build and optimize event-driven components and messaging (Kafka, RMQ, NATS)
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines as a service (GitLab CI)
• Design and operate distributed systems with fault tolerance and performance in mind
• Manage multi-region cloud infrastructure for global availability
• Establish centralized observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)
• Design RESTful APIs for infrastructure services and internal clients
• Implement Service Mesh capabilities (Envoy, Istio)
• Oversee relational databases as a service (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Collaborate with product teams to address infrastructure needs
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical infrastructure

Skills

Go (Golang)

Python

Kubernetes in production

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Distributed Systems

Observability

Service Mesh

Multi-region cloud

Communication

Customer-focused

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced Professional GCP Certification

Tools

GitLab CI

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NATS

Envoy

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/Datadog

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Job description

Saviynt seeks a Principal SRE to define and drive reliability across our SaaS platform. You will architect, implement, and operate scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure, build internal tools in Go, and ensure high availability across multi-region clouds.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product teams and on-call reliability practices. The ideal candidate has deep Kubernetes production experience, strong Go/Python skills, and a customer-focused mindset, plus advanced GCP certification.