This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in United States.
This role provides leadership in designing, scaling, and maintaining highly reliable and performant infrastructure in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will work across teams to improve system reliability, optimize deployments, and drive operational excellence using modern cloud-native tools and practices. The role demands a hands-on, “doer” mentality, applying deep technical expertise in SRE, backend engineering, and distributed systems to solve complex challenges. You will influence the technical roadmap, mentor engineers, and implement best practices for observability, CI/CD, and automation. This is a high-impact position offering autonomy, visibility, and the opportunity to shape the engineering culture while leveraging AI tools to scale productivity and infrastructure reliability.
Accountabilities- Architect, design, and implement scalable, reliable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), and distributed system patterns
- Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives to enhance system reliability, recoverability, and performance
- Lead capacity planning, stress testing, and benchmarking to identify bottlenecks and prepare systems for growth
- Define, maintain, and enforce SLAs, alerts, and observability standards across infrastructure
- Implement AI and automation solutions to improve operational efficiency and developer productivity
- Build consistency and scalability in a distributed microservices architecture while ensuring high performance
- Establish and evolve engineering best practices for CI/CD, security, and monitoring
- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business objectives into actionable technical roadmaps
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, with significant SRE and backend experience
- Hands-on experience deploying production changes to large-scale applications or infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Golang and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Expertise with SQL-based databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and optimizing schemas/queries for performance
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic) and monitoring best practices
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design patterns (event-driven architecture, stream processing, transactional outbox, queues)
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence decisions, and introduce new ideas
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Preferred: experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AI developer tooling, and data pipelines
- Preferred: track record of shipping commercial APIs and high-traffic applications in scaling environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary range: $200,000 – $260,000 per year
- Unlimited PTO, volunteer hours, and sabbatical opportunities
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, STD/LTD insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Flexible, collaborative, and inclusive work environment
- Opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and technical leadership
- Support for work-life balance and personal development initiatives
- Remote-first position with occasional cross-functional collaboration opportunities
Why Apply Through Jobgether?
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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