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SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security & risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy & Sam Kassoumeh & funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecards patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, & cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find & fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. 

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Role Overview

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a strategic & technical leadership role in shaping the reliability, scalability, & velocity of our engineering platform. Your primary focus will be advancing our Kubernetes-based infrastructure & CI/CD systems to support high-scale, high-availability services. You will partner with engineering leaders across the organization to define & drive platform-wide initiatives that enable fast, safe, & repeatable deployments, & foster a culture of reliability & operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design & evolution of Kubernetes-based infrastructure to support multi-tenant, high-scale applications with strong isolation, resilience, & security.
• Architect & optimize CI/CD pipelines to support fast & reliable build, test, & deploy cycles across a polyglot environment.
• Establish & evangelize best practices for GitOps, canary deployments, rollback strategies, & progressive delivery.
• Define & implement scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns using tools such as Terraform, Helm, & Crossplane.
• Drive the adoption of automated testing throughout the delivery lifecycleunit, integration, load, & chaos testingto ensure high confidence in production changes.
• Guide teams in designing for observability, SLOs, & alerting, ensuring actionable signals & minimizing alert fatigue.
• Partner with security, compliance, & development teams to ensure infrastructure & delivery systems meet modern security & governance standards.
• Lead incident response retrospectives & foster a blameless culture of continuous improvement.
• Mentor & influence senior engineers across multiple teams, helping to up-level platform reliability capabilities organization-wide.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles, with 2+ years in a technical leadership or principal capacity.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes internals (controllers, networking, autoscaling, operators, etc.) & production-grade clusters on cloud providers (EKS, GKE, or AKS).
• Proven experience designing & scaling CI/CD systems using tools such as GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Tekton, Spinnaker, or similar.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform & modern IaC practices.
• Advanced knowledge of automated testing strategies, including performance, load, & failure testing.
• Proficient in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
• Deep experience with monitoring & observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, & Datadog.
• Strong communicator with the ability to align technical initiatives to business objectives & influence across engineering teams.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience implementing multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes strategies.
• Exposure to chaos engineering & building resilient distributed systems.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.) as they relate to infrastructure & deployment.
• Contributions to open-source Kubernetes tooling or SRE frameworks.
• Familiarity with JVM- or Node-based application stacks.

Benefits:

Specific to each country, we offer a competitive salary, stock options, Health benefits, & unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, & much more!

The estimated total compensation range for this position is $220,000 - $290,000 (base plus bonus). Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications & experience, & may vary from the range. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible for annual performance-based incentive compensation awards & equity, among other company benefits. 

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We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io.

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