Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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. Apply software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeSan Francisco • Arizona • United StatesLead💰 $207,000 - $276,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cloud Technologies, with a strong focus on improving system reliability, observability, and operational readiness. Proficient in applying automation, CI/CD practices, and incident management to enhance engineering effectiveness and service health.

Highest-signal resume keywords

15+ Years Experience in Software EngineeringExpertise in AWS or Comparable Cloud TechnologiesProficient in CI/CD and Infrastructure as CodeExperience with SLIs, SLOs, and Incident ManagementStrong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills

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Hard Skills

Software DevelopmentScriptingDistributed SystemsAutomationObservabilityIncident ManagementPerformance AnalysisCapacity ManagementDisaster RecoveryCloud Architecture

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsProblem-SolvingCommunicationCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AWSMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformOracle Cloud InfrastructureCI/CD ToolsMonitoring ToolsLogging ToolsDashboardsContainersOrchestration

Industry Keywords

Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsInfrastructure EngineeringTechnical LeadershipOperational Readiness

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxOracleUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Apply software engineering and systems engineering practices to improve reliability, resilience, scalability, and operational health of production services
Partner with Software Engineering and technology teams to engineer reliability, observability, recoverability, performance, and operational readiness throughout the system lifecycle
Establish technical direction and apply evidence-driven engineering, technical rigor, automation, sound judgment, and broad systems expertise across organizational boundaries
Improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered using software engineering, automation, and DevOps practices
Use data, evidence, experimentation, and rigorous engineering analysis to identify reliability risks, test assumptions, and guide technical decisions
Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health measures
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD, observability, deployment practices, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness
Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning
Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for critical production incidents and improve incident response, escalation, service restoration, and sustainable on-call operations
Reduce operational toil and manual intervention through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices
Raise the effectiveness and technical capability of engineers and teams across the organization
Establish enterprise technical direction, develop senior technical leaders, and operate autonomously across consequential reliability challenges

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically 15+ years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture, or a comparable technical discipline
Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages
Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Hands-on experience with AWS is preferred, or comparable experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software or distributed systems
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers or orchestration, observability, monitoring, alerting, and software-delivery automation
Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness
Experience creating reusable automation, tooling, platforms, patterns, or practices that improve engineering effectiveness
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Independently possess eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire
Position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship
Ability to perform essential functions and physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation
Ability to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently
Requires visual acuity and dexterity to use computers and office equipment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health, and dependent care expenses
401(k) Retirement Plan with a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work
Discretionary incentive plan
Reasonable accommodation for essential functions and physical requirements