Principal SRE: Kubernetes Reliability & Scale Architect

FactSet; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

FactSet is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You will work with development and operations to automate processes, define SLOs/SLIs, and drive best practices across teams.

We seek 8+ years of experience, strong Kubernetes skills, and hands-on work with cloud platforms, CI/CD, monitoring, and IaC. The role involves on-call rotations and capacity planning in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve reliability and availability of production systems.
• Respond to incidents and conduct post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs.
• Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into services.
• Design and implement automation to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support critical systems.
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Document systems, processes, and runbooks for the wider team.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring & observability

Infrastructure as Code

Config management

Programming scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

FactSet is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You will work with development and operations to automate processes, define SLOs/SLIs, and drive best practices across teams.

We seek 8+ years of experience, strong Kubernetes skills, and hands-on work with cloud platforms, CI/CD, monitoring, and IaC. The role involves on-call rotations and capacity planning in a fast-moving environment.