
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Arcadia
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $230,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Act as the technical leader for reliability for one or more domains; set direction and standards while remaining hands-on where it matters most
- Drive reliability strategy across critical services: define SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and reliability KPIs aligned to customer journeys and outcomes
- Own incident response maturity: lead complex incidents, improve incident command practices, and ensure high-quality RCAs with prioritized, tracked remediation
- Architect and implement automation to reduce toil and risk: runbook automation, self-service tools, and safe operational workflows (Python + Argo Workflows)
- Advance GitOps delivery practices using Argo CD: promotion strategies, progressive delivery/canaries, and guardrails that reduce deploy risk
- Scale infrastructure management with Crossplane and Terraform: reusable patterns, policy controls, and paved roads for teams
- Lead operational readiness and reliability reviews for new features/architectural changes; reinforce non-functional requirements (availability, latency, security, cost)
- Improve performance and cost efficiency through capacity planning, load testing, right-sizing, and architecture recommendations across AWS services
- Champion infrastructure security best practices for environments that handle PHI (least privilege, secrets management, auditability, and defense-in-depth)
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and documentation; raise reliability standards across teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, systems engineering, or related roles operating production services at scale
- Demonstrated principal-level impact: leading cross-team initiatives, influencing architecture decisions, and driving sustained improvements in reliability and operations
- Expertise in Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting, including safe rollout/rollback patterns, workload debugging, and operational guardrails
- Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD; experience building delivery workflows and automation using Argo Workflows
- Strong infrastructure orchestration and provisioning experience with Crossplane and Terraform; ability to define reusable platform patterns and controls
- Deep AWS experience (IAM, networking/VPC, compute, storage, managed services, observability) and strong understanding of reliability and failure modes in cloud systems
- Proficiency in Python for building automation, tooling, and reliability improvements
- Strong incident management and on-call leadership experience, including measurable improvements (availability, MTTR, alert quality, cost, or operational maturity)
- Excellent communication skills: can translate technical risk and reliability tradeoffs to engineering leadership, product, and stakeholders; produces high-quality docs/runbooks
Benefits
- Be a part of a mission driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry by changing the way patients receive care
- A flexible, remote friendly company with personality and heart
- Employee driven programs and initiatives for personal and professional development
- Become a member of the talented, energized, diverse and purpose-driven Arcadian Community
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SREplatform engineeringsystems engineeringKubernetesGitOpsArgo CDCrossplaneTerraformPythonAWS
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringincident managementcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingdocumentationcapacity planningperformance improvement