Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 72% of similar roles. Most pay $159,737–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $187k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
Microsoft currently has 598 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 586 roles with salary data.
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As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer on the Substrate team, you will set technical and operational direction for reliability across critical cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for defining reliability strategies, SLO frameworks, and engineering standards while leading complex multi-year initiatives to ensure high availability and security. Your daily work involves serving as an actively engaged senior on-call engineer, providing hands-on leadership during high-impact incidents, and conducting post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements. You will architect large-scale automation, observability, and self-healing solutions while mentoring other engineers. The role requires expertise in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration to manage workloads in regulated, sovereign, or compliance-sensitive environments. You will solve complex problems related to infrastructure for services requiring high security and reliability within specialized government cloud environments.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.
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