Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 USD annually, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Publicly traded technology company operating in regulated sports betting and gaming.

What you will do

• Define and execute the long-term Kubernetes platform strategy across Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, RKE2, and on-premise environments.
• Lead architectural decisions covering cluster lifecycle management, networking, identity and access management, observability, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Direct large-scale platform initiatives across multiple engineering teams and establish technical standards and measurable reliability outcomes.
• Build automation-first infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, self-healing systems, and internal platform tooling.
• Establish SLO, SLI, and error budget frameworks aligned with business priorities.
• Lead critical incidents, drive post-incident improvements, mentor senior engineers, and promote responsible AI adoption in engineering workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• At least 8 years of experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed cloud and on-premise infrastructure, including 3 years at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Deep production expertise with Kubernetes, including architecture, networking, storage, security, operators, lifecycle management, and large-scale operations.
• Extensive AWS and Google Cloud experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong software development skills in Go, Python, or both, plus GitOps, CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, Linux, and reliability engineering.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, including mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy. A gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency may be required.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated industries or hybrid cloud environments.
• Open-source contributions or cloud certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States.
• Bonus, equity, and benefits applicable to the role.
• Support with the gaming license process when required.
• Focus on innovation, operational excellence, engineering productivity, and responsible AI adoption.