Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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. Guide the observability and reliability initiative for Government Systems running on Azure Government .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $118,300 - $219,800 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in SLO-based reliability engineering, observability techniques, and disaster recovery planning. Capable of guiding development teams on telemetry strategies and serving as a technical authority on Datadog.

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SLO-Based Reliability EngineeringDatadog Dashboarding and AlertingFull-Stack Observability TechniquesDisaster Recovery PlanningInstrumentation and Telemetry Strategy

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Hard Skills

SLO TrackingTelemetry PipelinesSystems DesignHigh AvailabilityFault InjectionChaos EngineeringRoot Cause AnalysisConfiguration as CodeOn-Call ReadinessError Budget Management

Soft Skills

MentoringCoachingCommunicationCollaborationLeadership

Tools & Technologies

DatadogGitHub CopilotLinuxWindows ServerCI/CD Components

Certifications & Qualifications

Public Trust Clearance

Industry Keywords

ObservabilitySite Reliability EngineeringDisaster RecoveryIncident ResponseTelemetry Strategy

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureDistributed SystemsLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Guide the observability and reliability initiative for Government Systems running on Azure Government
Set technical direction for measuring and improving organizational reliability
Lead the transition to SLO-based reliability engineering
Guide development teams on application telemetry and instrumentation strategy
Serve as the primary technical authority on Datadog, including dashboarding, alerting, and SLO tracking
Recommend service level objectives with Product and Development teams
Act as a senior escalation point during incidents
Improve and evolve the broader SRE framework
Build disaster recovery plans, including advanced fault injection scenarios
Advise on SRE training curriculum and content
Set and follow priorities established by the SRE Manager
Train and mentor junior SREs

Requirements

What you’ll need

U.S. citizenship required
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
Significant, hands-on experience with Datadog, including dashboards, alerting, SLO/error-budget tracking, and telemetry pipelines
Proven experience leading an organization's transition to SLO-based reliability engineering
Experience guiding development teams on instrumentation and telemetry strategy
Deep technical understanding of full-stack observability techniques
Ability to build templated observability dashboards and configuration as code
Ability to set and influence organization-wide SLOs and Error Budgets
Comfortable operating across Linux and Windows server environments
Experience preparing and assessing SREs for on-call readiness
Experience running psychologically safe post-mortems
Experience acting as a senior on-call escalation point
Experience identifying and fixing root causes of excessive alerting and pager load
Advanced understanding of systems design, high availability, deployment, recovery techniques, failure modes, and system behaviors
Specialized depth in denial-of-service protection, containerization, or another related area
Ability to make resilience and recoverability decisions using load testing data and fault injection results
Experience documenting SRE design practices and contributing to an SRE framework
Experience contributing to disaster recovery plans and runbooks
Ability to design and lead disaster recovery practice scenarios and incident response exercises
Experience planning chaos engineering scenarios across memory, network, I/O, or distributed systems
Ability to build engineering and architecture consensus for standard platforms and CI/CD components
Experience promoting adoption and standardization, including inner sourcing
Experience creating and sharing SRE best practices and training material
Comfortable coaching other SREs and identifying development gaps
Ability to identify and eliminate large-scale toil
Experience using GitHub Copilot for troubleshooting, automation, or reliability tooling is desired
Interest in defining AI-assisted development best practices within an SRE context is desired

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual incentive bonus
Country-specific benefits
Accommodation or adjustment support during the hiring process