Remote Principal SRE Team Lead | Global Cloud Reliability

Jobgether; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Remote and/or hybrid work options

Equity awards for eligible positions

Job summary

Partner Company in the United States is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability, availability, and operational health of a global cloud-native AI platform. You will combine hands-on SRE work with technical leadership to shape strategy across production services.

Responsibilities include setting SLI/SLO/SLA governance, observability, incident response, and production readiness, while mentoring engineers and guiding architecture reviews across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or cloud-related roles with leadership exposure.
• Ability to set technical direction and influence teams with authority.
• Hands-on with container tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio.
• Strong cloud experience: Azure preferred, AWS/GCP exposure.
• Experience with observability: metrics, dashboards, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/Thanos).
• CI/CD and IaC: Terraform, Flux; scripting in Python/Go/Shell.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the SRE function and mentor engineers across locations.
• Define reliability roadmap for 2-3 quarters; govern SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks.
• Design sustainable on-call model; manage incident responses and postmortems.
• Lead Production Readiness and non-functional reviews with development teams.
• Drive CI/CD automation and collaborate with DevOps/platform teams to evolve infrastructure.
• Communicate reliability posture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

SRE leadership

Technical leadership

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Azure

AWS

GCP

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Flux

Python/Go/Shell

UNIX/Linux

Networking fundamentals

English communication

Incident management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Azure

AWS

GCP

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Flux

Loki

Thanos

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Partner Company in the United States is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability, availability, and operational health of a global cloud-native AI platform. You will combine hands-on SRE work with technical leadership to shape strategy across production services.

Responsibilities include setting SLI/SLO/SLA governance, observability, incident response, and production readiness, while mentoring engineers and guiding architecture reviews across distributed teams.