Principal SRE

Chalkboard

Principal SRE ensuring platform reliability and scalability for Chalkboard’s immersive sports gaming experience. Collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, and Data teams to enhance user engagement.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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