Principal Production Engineer
You will own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and supporting platform tooling. You will define service-level objectives, lead incident response, and drive systemic improvements that reduce operational toil. You will build observability and on-call tooling, influence architecture decisions with software, hardware, and network engineering partners, set production engineering standards, and mentor senior and staff engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability and scalability of cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking
- Define service-level objectives, lead incident response, and drive systemic reliability improvements
- Build and mature observability, telemetry, instrumentation, and on-call tooling
- Drive reliability improvements across the cloud stack and influence architecture decisions early
- Advise senior leadership on observability trends and long-term technology investments
- Set standards for on-call culture, incident frameworks, and reliability practices
- Mentor senior and staff engineers and elevate technical depth
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, networking, or production engineering at internet-scale companies
- Strong systems fundamentals in Linux, distributed systems, storage, and compute scheduling
- Hands-on data center infrastructure experience, including power and thermal constraints
- Ability to write code for automation, instrumentation, and tooling
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong incident command skills and experience running blameless retrospectives
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Health insurance options including HDHP and PPO plans, vision, and dental coverage for employees and dependents
- Employer contributions to HSA accounts
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- MetLife Legal
- Company-paid commuter benefit of $300 per month