Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Salary: $184,300–$264,950 base pay annually, plus potential performance-based bonus and restricted stock unit awards.

Company

hirify.global provides a workforce operating platform using workforce insights and people-first AI to help organizations improve productivity, trust, and talent management.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the organization-wide Site Reliability Engineering strategy, vision, and technical roadmap.
• Establish service design reviews, capacity planning methods, production readiness standards, and lifecycle practices across teams.
• Build and operate shared platforms, tooling, and frameworks that improve availability, incident detection, and response.
• Drive performance, availability, efficiency, observability, automation, and operational excellence improvements at scale.
• Influence technical decisions across engineering, product, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Lead, mentor, and develop SRE talent across multiple teams while promoting reliability-focused engineering practices.

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, systems engineering, and/or cloud environments.
• 10+ years of experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, including large-scale system design and operations.
• 5+ years of experience operating applications or infrastructure in large-scale, customer-facing production environments.
• Experience with distributed systems, observability, metric and log pipelines, time-series databases, distributed tracing, Linux, and production troubleshooting.
• Programming experience with Python, Java, C#, C++, or another higher-level language, plus GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, technical leadership, executive influence, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, Ansible, cloud-native applications, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Splunk or Grafana, observability dashboards, alerts, and metrics pipelines.
• Experience with production cost optimization, performance tuning, security, network design, and cloud architecture.
• Experience defining technical vision, driving operational change, and aligning technology decisions with business value.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits and rewards are provided as part of employment.
• Potential performance-based bonus and restricted stock unit awards.
• Equal opportunity employment and disability accommodation support during the application and interview process.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify.