Chalkboard

Principal SRE

Chalkboard

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own platform reliability end-to-end, proactively identifying and mitigating risks before they impact users
  • Build and evolve observability (metrics, logs, tracing) to enable fast detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues
  • Scale infrastructure ahead of demand by identifying bottlenecks and implementing durable architecture improvements
  • Reduce developer friction by improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and internal tooling
  • Lead incident response and root cause analysis, driving systemic fixes—not just short-term patches
  • Establish and enforce best practices for infrastructure, deployments, and system reliability
  • Build reusable, self-service infrastructure that enables teams to ship quickly and safely
  • Continuously improve systems through automation and Infrastructure-as-Code

Requirements

  • Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred): networking, IAM, databases, storage
  • Kubernetes: cluster operations and workload management
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions or similar
  • Observability: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting
  • 8+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles
  • Strong experience with distributed systems and backend architectures
  • Proven ability to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Strong debugging skills using data (logs, metrics, traces)
  • Experience leading incident response and driving root cause analysis
  • Ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and scale
  • Experience partnering across engineering teams to improve developer velocity
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage starting day 1, with the majority of premiums covered by Chalkboard
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Lunch on us everyday with a corporate DoorDash account
  • Refuel in the office with protein shakes, energy drinks, and a snack buffet
  • Flexible time off policy, plus 10 company holidays, WFH during the holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloud InfrastructureKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsObservabilitydistributed systemsbackend architectures
Soft Skills
incident responseroot cause analysissystem reliabilityscalabilityperformance improvementdebuggingpragmatic tradeoffscollaborationleadershipproblem-solving