Principal Site Reliability Engineer

What Youll Be Doing

• Demonstrate full-stack fluency and adaptability to work across unfamiliar systems with minimal ramp-up time.
• Tackle complex infrastructure challenges by delivering scalable, repeatable solutions with measurable outcomes.
• Maintain deep engagement with evolving industry trends and internal architecture to align practices with leading standards.
• Align proactively with organizational strategy, identifying gaps and collaborating on pragmatic, forward-thinking solutions.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous problems, contributing thoughtful insights and suggesting nuanced improvements based on broad system understanding.
• Influence through thought leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance across teams, mediums, and organizational layers.
• Command broad visibility and trust, with impact recognized across senior leadership and peer teams.
• Independently drive complex initiatives end-to-end, from roadmap planning to cross-functional execution.
• Take ownership and act with urgency, proactively addressing issues and proposing innovative solutions.
• Cultivate and manage the technical reputation of your team and functions through high-quality delivery and stakeholder engagement.

What Youll Bring to the Role

• Strong leadership in building and scaling modern cloud-native infrastructure.
• Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS, including architecture, scaling, and advanced configurations.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and GitOps workflows.
• Strong Coding Experience in Go or Python
• Expert in CI/CD, Linux, networking, and OS hardening, with deep knowledge of IP protocols.
• Deploy and manage k8s clusters & proficient knowledge on EKS
• Proficient in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Chef) and operational tooling (Ruby, Python, Go, Shell).
• Hands on with deploying and managing database and caching technology like Redis
• Proven experience implementing robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar tools.
• Practical experience with container security, secrets management, and compliance in production environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving complex projects to completion.

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• 5+ years working with Kubernetes/EKS, Helm & Karpenter in production-grade environments.
• 5+ years of experience architecting and running complex AWS or other cloud networking infrastructure resources
• 5+ years of experience with Ansible, Chef, and Terraform
• 5+ years of experience of Coding / Scripting in Python or GoLang or Java
• 3+ Experience with service meshes (e.g., Istio)
• Demonstrated success in leading reliability or platform initiatives across large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience participating in or leading incident response and root cause analysis processes.
• Prior experience in a high-scale SaaS, or cloud-native startup environment is a strong plus.
• Strong Linux & security understanding and experience.
• BS In computer science (or equivalent experience).