Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

What you'll do

• Design and architect scalable infrastructure to ensure system reliability and performance standards.
• Define and implement observability strategies including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and automated alerting.
• Develop automation to reduce manual toil and improve deployment, configuration management, and recovery processes.
• Lead technical response and coordination during high-severity production incidents and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Perform capacity planning, demand forecasting, and load testing for critical platforms.
• Conduct resilience testing through failure-mode analysis and controlled fault-injection exercises.
• Partner with security teams to integrate compliance and vulnerability remediation into infrastructure operations.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to engineers across the organization on reliability best practices.

What we're looking for

• Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in site reliability, software engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience is required in designing and operating highly available production systems at significant scale.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, operating systems, storage, and databases is required.
• Advanced experience with a major cloud platform like OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP is required.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proven expertise in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible is required.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in languages such as Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, or Bash are required.
• A Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field is preferred.