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Principal Production Engineer

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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

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