Principal Site Reliability Engineer

• System Design: Architect and implement various cloud and on-premise applications, systems, and infrastructure
• Hybrid system integration: Integrate extremely diverse systems, configure stable integration, uptime, and monitoring
• Edge device integration: work with edge devices of various formats and integrate them with on-prem and cloud workflows, including networking, low-level OS, and electrical/control integration
• Low-level performance optimization: optimize the performance and throughput of the system at the filesystem, networking, and software levels
• High-level optimisation of cost and stability: optimize cost, operational stability, and supportability of highly diverse platforms and tech stack
• Product Mindset: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and user-friendly web and mobile data-intensive applications
• System Integration: Build tools that enable users to easily move between different applications and platforms to utilize the strengths of each in a coherent ecosystem
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and product managers, to understand data requirements and deliver data solutions that align with business goals
• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including data flow diagrams, architecture designs, and standard operating procedures
• Technology Evaluation: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to data engineering, recommending and implementing new tools and frameworks as appropriate

• 8+ years of experience building infrastructure with K8S, AWS, and bare metal
• 8+ years of experience working with Python and Go (with production experience)
• 8+ years of experience working with infra automation tools: Terraform / Terragrunt (or Pulumi / CDK)
• 8+ experience with Linux-based systems and networks, and a deep understanding of internal components, networking, and security aspects
• Has a track record of building and maintaining scalable systems in production environments
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (or GitLab / Jenkins) for application release and deployment
• Experience in using AWS ECS, EKS, IAM, EC2, and RDS at production scale
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and its internals (kubelet, CRDs, etc) and experience with building and extending clusters from scratch
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and networking issues
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality, well-documented code

• Experience with standard SQL, NoSQL, and MPP databases
• Experience with writing production Kubernetes operators
• Airflow, Kubeflow, or other orchestration system experience
• Can understand some C++ and/or Rust, or talk with people who do
• Prior experience in the autonomy and robotics space is a huge plus

eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs