Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Google Cloud

Why This Role Matters

Saviynt’s platform is mission-critical for our customers. As we scale globally, reliability, availability, and performance are not optional—they are core product features. As a Principal Engineer, you will define and drive the reliability strategy for our SaaS platform. This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role with broad influence across infrastructure, platform, and application teams. You will shape how Saviynt designs, operates, and measures reliability at scale. This role is ideal for engineers who want to work on hard reliability problems, influence architecture across teams, and leave a lasting mark on a growing SaaS platform.

What You Will Do

• You will focus on creating reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity, enabling other teams to focus on their core business logic and deliver features faster in a multi-cloud environment.
• You will design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services that other development teams will integrate with and leverage to deploy and operate their applications.
• You will architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service for internal consumers.
• You will develop robust, internal-facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang).
• You will architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.), focusing on creating reusable patterns and modules for other teams.
• You will design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms using technologies like Kafka or Google Pub/Sub that product teams can easily utilize.
• You will develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI and ArgoCD) as a service, providing standardized and automated deployment workflows for various development teams.
• You will design and build resilient Distributed Systems components that serve as building blocks for other applications, focusing on reliability, fault tolerance, and performance.
• You will manage and optimize our shared infrastructure across Multi-Region Cloud Environments, ensuring that platform services are globally available and performant for all consumers.
• You will establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools that provide self-service insights for consuming teams.
• You will define and implement clear, well-documented RESTful API designs for the infrastructure services you build, ensuring ease of integration for internal clients.
• You will implement and manage Service Mesh (e.g., Envoy, Istio) capabilities, providing traffic management, security, and policy enforcement as a shared platform for services.
• You will design, implement, and optimize highly available Relational Database services or shared data platforms for broad organizational use.
• You will collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and pain points, providing technical guidance and support.
• You will participate in on-call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure you build.

What Are We Looking For

• 1+ years of experience as a Principal SRE with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform(i.e single tenant and multi-tenant deployment architectures)
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, with experience building robust, maintainable backend services and automation
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (GCP is a must); multi-cloud experience is a strong plus, especially in building abstractions over them.
• Prominent experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RMQ, NATS) as shared services
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and experience establishing automated delivery processes for other teams
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating Distributed Systems, with an understanding of patterns for creating reliable, shared components
• Familiarity with Multi-Region Cloud Environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platform
• Proficiency in establishing and utilizing comprehensive Observability and Monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for shared infrastructure
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well-documented, consumable APIs
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgresSQL), ideally in managing them as a service
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A strong customer-centric mindset, treating internal development teams as your primary customers
• Advanced Professional GCP Certification is required.

Additional Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required.
• Complete security & privacy literacy and awareness training during onboarding and annually thereafter.
• Review (initially and annually thereafter), understand, and adhere to Information Security/Privacy Policies and Procedures such as (but not limited to): Data Classification, Retention & Handling Policy, Incident Response Policy/Procedures, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Policy/Procedures, Mobile Device Policy, Account Management Policy, Access Control Policy, Personnel Security Policy, Privacy Policy.