Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Ally Financial

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$110,000–$180,000 / yr
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3 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $184k
This role $145k
$95k most similar roles pay here $250k

This role pays less than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $151,404–$216,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $145k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

Based on 238 similar postings.

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About Ally Financial

Ally Financial is a US-based digital financial services company offering online banking, auto financing, mortgage, and investment products. It is one of the largest all-digital banks in the United States.

Ally Financial currently has 13 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$180,000 across 13 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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The Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) joins a team focused on advancing Generative AI and Machine Learning capabilities in reporting while meeting product and technology PMO needs. This role involves designing and implementing highly available, scalable infrastructure systems for mission-critical production services, including automated deployment pipelines, observability platforms, and disaster recovery protocols. The engineer will lead incident response and postmortem processes to resolve complex distributed system failures, manage service level objectives and error budgets, and build automation tools to eliminate toil. Key technical requirements include expertise in AWS with Terraform or Pulumi, proficiency in Python, Go, or Node, and experience with container orchestration like ECS. The role requires skills in monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana, alongside deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and distributed systems principles.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $188000 from 134 postings across 37 companies.

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Skills

AWS Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi Python Go ECS Microservices Prometheus Grafana Datadog New Relic Dynatrace CI/CD GitOps Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD CircleCI Machine Learning

What you'll do

  • Design and implement highly available, scalable infrastructure systems for mission-critical production services.
  • Build automated deployment pipelines, observability platforms, and disaster recovery systems.
  • Lead incident response and postmortem processes to identify root causes of distributed system failures.
  • Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to balance feature velocity with reliability.
  • Create tools and automation to eliminate manual toil and improve operational efficiency for engineering teams.
  • Advance Generative AI and Machine Learning capabilities within the reporting and technology PMO.
  • Manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi in AWS environments.
  • Develop production-quality code in Python, Go, or Node for automation and system integration.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of relevant experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles (preferred).
  • Deep expertise in AWS cloud and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi (preferred).
  • Experience defining/measuring SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to drive reliability improvements (preferred).
  • Proficiency in AI development and strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Node (preferred).
  • Extensive experience with container orchestration (ECS or similar) and microservices architectures (preferred).
  • Proficiency with observability tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic (preferred).

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