Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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Required Skills
AWSMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting distributed systems and microservices architectures.
  • Strong expertise in observability, monitoring strategies, incident management, and operational excellence frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering practices across multiple teams.
  • Extensive experience implementing reliability frameworks, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and production readiness processes.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a structured and analytical approach to complex technical challenges.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities, with experience collaborating across engineering and leadership teams.
  • Experience working with cloud environments, particularly AWS, is highly desirable.
  • Previous exposure to financial services, regulated industries, or mission-critical platforms is considered an advantage.
  • Interest in blockchain technologies, digital assets, or decentralized finance ecosystems is a plus.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Define and promote Site Reliability Engineering principles, establishing frameworks for reliability, observability, service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
  • Drive the adoption of operational excellence practices and ensure reliability metrics are measurable and continuously improved.
  • Design and implement automation solutions that enhance system scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
  • Conduct production readiness assessments and provide architectural guidance to engineering teams to ensure services are built for scale and resilience.
  • Lead initiatives to improve the lifecycle of distributed systems and microservices, from development and deployment to monitoring and optimization.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks, capacity challenges, and operational risks while implementing sustainable solutions.
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership to embed reliability considerations into product development processes.
  • Lead incident management improvements through blameless postmortems, root cause analysis, and systemic remediation initiatives.
  • Mentor engineers and advocate for best practices in reliability engineering, fostering ownership and operational maturity across teams.
  • Contribute to the future vision and strategic direction of the Site Reliability Engineering function.
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