Principal Software Engineer-SRE

Details

• Lead design, implementation, and evolution of reliability, availability, and resiliency strategies for large‑scale distributed systems written primarily inJava
• Apply deep experience operating complex, distributed systems to guide architectural decisions, reliability strategies, and long‑term system evolution
• Identifysystemic risks in application architecture, data flows, and infrastructure, and drive architectural improvements that measurably improve availability, performance, and scalability
• Set and evolve reliability standards, best practices, and operational principles across R&D
• Lead efforts to prevent, detect, and mitigate incidents through technical improvements and operational maturity
• Serve as a senior coordination point during major incidents, helping manage response and guide long‑term remediation
• Champion blameless post-incident reviews and ensure learnings translate into durable system improvements
• Apply advanced software engineering practices toeliminatemanual work, reduce operational load, and improve system observability
• Design and build internal platforms, automation, and tooling that support Java‑based services and their operational needs
• Raise the bar on monitoring, alerting, and SLO/SLI adoption across systems
• Partner deeply with product engineers, architects, and engineering leadership to ensure reliability and operability are first‑class concerns in system design
• Review and influence designs for complex systems involving technologies such asdatastores, messaging systems, and coordination services
• Serve as a technical mentor and coach for SREs and other engineers, raising overall engineering and operational maturity
• Contribute to longer‑term reliability and infrastructure strategy aligned with business growth
• Stay current with industry trends in SRE, distributed systems, and the Java ecosystem, turning insights into practical improvements
• Help define what “great reliability” looks like for the organization and how we measure it
• US Citizenship or Permanent Residents only due to ITAR requirements.
• Ability towork east coast (EST) hours. And be available for on-call rotation once every10 weeks.
• 10+years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems engineering roles
• Extremely strongproficiencywith the Java programming language and its ecosystem, including building, debugging, andoperatingproduction Java services
• Deep experience operating complex, distributed systems in production environments
• Strong software engineering background, witha track recordof delivering high‑quality, maintainable code
• Expert understanding of incident management, service reliability, and performance engineering
• Strong hands‑on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces), capacity planning, and SLO‑driven reliability
• Deep familiarity with modern cloud‑based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Ability to reason about failure modes across application, data, and infrastructure layers
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives that span teams and organizational boundaries
• Comfortable making high‑impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments
• Strong communicator who can influence design and operational decisions across a wide range of stakeholders
• Systems thinker focused on root‑cause analysis and durable fixes
• Calm and effective under pressure, especially during high‑severity incidents
• Curious, data‑driven, and committed to continuous improvement
• Experienceoperatingor supporting systems using technologies such asMongoDB,ZooKeeper, andRabbitMQ
• Background in performance tuning and scalability optimization of Java services
• Experience setting or influencing engineering standards at the organization level
• Prior involvement in evolving SRE or platform practices in a growing engineering organization
• Experience designing,operating, or scaling systems in cloud environments such as AWS (preferred), including familiarity with core services, networking models, and reliability features