Senior Staff Reliability Engineer, Software Engineering

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Senior Principal Reliability Engineer at a global healthcare company. Leading reliability engineering practices and collaborating across IT teams to enhance system resilience and performance.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRahway • New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,400 - $224,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudITSMOpen SourceSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build relationships across the broader IT organization to increase adoption and maturity of SRE, Observability, and Resilience practices
Define and evolve the strategic vision for enterprise reliability engineering and ensure alignment across product, platform, and ITSM teams
Establish and enforce standards for Service Level Objectives, observability frameworks, and resilience engineering practices
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability is embedded into architecture, design, and delivery processes
Drive adoption of Service Level Objectives using Nobl9 as the system of record for reliability governance
Lead evaluation and introduction of new technologies that improve reliability outcomes while integrating with existing platforms
Apply AI capabilities to enhance reliability practices, including incident triage, diagnostics, and automation, in a governed and controlled manner
Collaborate within efforts to standardize observability across logs, metrics, traces, and events to improve system visibility and decision-making
Consult and promote resilience patterns including fault isolation, failover strategies, and recovery mechanisms
Guide improvements surrounding incident lifecycle effectiveness, including detection, response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
Lead and mentor a community of reliability practitioners to grow organizational capability and maturity
Represent reliability engineering practice in architecture reviews, governance forums, and key IT initiatives
Drive continuous improvement of reliability practices through research, innovation, and feedback from engineering teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Minimum 7 years experience in site reliability engineering
Expertise in capacity management, system integration, software development, release management, network design, configuration management (CM), software development life cycle (SDLC), system administration, change controls, and solution architecture
Proficiency in designing, managing, developing, and maintaining technological products, particularly in the animal health domain
Strong expertise in hardware, mechanics, artificial intelligence, and software development
Experience in program management, including product definition, development, testing, maintenance, and tier 4 support
Ability to conduct technological and product research and drive innovation
Skilled in developing and managing CI/CD pipelines for product development cycles
Knowledge of performance optimization and server software management
Experience with application deployment to both cloud and on-premises production environments
Understanding of product security, company development policies, and open source usage
Strong leadership skills including strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and business savviness
Proven track record in coaching and development, talent growth, and execution excellence
Strong commitment to inclusion, with the ability to influence and motivate others
Excellent emotional intelligence, decision-making skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
retirement benefits, including 401(k)
paid holidays
vacation
compassionate and sick days

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Hard Skills & Tools

site reliability engineeringcapacity managementsystem integrationsoftware developmentrelease managementnetwork designconfiguration managementsoftware development life cyclesystem administrationsolution architecture

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic planninginnovationcoachingtalent growthemotional intelligencedecision-makinginfluencemotivationaccountability