Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Ally Financial

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Charlotte, NC
Salary
$110,000–$180,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
49 days ago
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Below market

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This role pays less than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $142,500–$215,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $145k versus about $179k for comparable roles.

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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 28 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$180,000 across 26 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) joins the team to advance Generative AI and Machine Learning capabilities in reporting. 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. You will lead incident response and postmortem processes, develop service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, and build automation to eliminate toil. Key technologies include AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and container orchestration like ECS. You must be proficient in Python, Go, or Node, and possess experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and CircleCI. The work focuses on solving complex distributed systems failures and improving reliability across engineering teams.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $183600 from 124 postings across 31 companies.

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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 and drive systemic reliability improvements.
  • Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets using data-driven approaches.
  • Build tooling and automation to eliminate toil and improve operational efficiency for engineering teams.
  • Write production-quality code for automation, tooling, and system integration using languages like Python, Go, or Node.
  • Manage container orchestration and microservices architectures in production environments.
  • Build comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Datadog.

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).
  • Proficiency in AI development and strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Node (preferred).
  • Experience with container orchestration (ECS or similar), microservices, and CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Proficiency with observability tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Datadog (preferred).
  • Strong incident management, networking, and distributed systems knowledge (preferred).

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