Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)

Overview

In this role you lead the development and initial architecture of scalable distributed systems, focusing on elasticity, high throughput, and fault tolerance. You define scalability requirements, drive data-path optimization, and ensure reliability through redundancy and automated failover. You establish telemetry, dashboards, and SLO-aligned practices, while embedding security, IaC, and change-management into operations. You’ll mentor peers and contribute to production readiness in a leading AI and cloud solutions environment.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible medical
• life insurance
• retirement options
• volunteer programs
• disability accommodation support

Responsibilities

• Lead development and initial architecture of scalable distributed systems with horizontal/vertical scaling.
• Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
• Define scalability requirements and ensure design meets elasticity and performance targets.
• Design fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
• Handle network partitions and unreliability with load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
• Define KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts; design validation, replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability.
• Diagnose production issues, mentor peers, and ensure operational readiness.
• Implement robust security controls, remediation, and multi-tenant compliance documentation.
• Develop automation and IaC to manage cloud infrastructure and automate patching/updating/rollback within change-management plans.

Key requirements

• collaboration and cross-functional partnership
• problem solving and critical thinking
• mentorship and knowledge sharing
• system design and architecture for distributed systems
• scalability engineering and elasticity
• high-throughput data processing

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