ShipperHQ

Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Austin, Texas

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Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision and roadmap for cloud infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
  • Define and evolve Terraform Infrastructure as Code standards across environments.
  • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
  • Implement SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management, observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Build self-service platform capabilities and automation for engineering teams.
  • Lead infrastructure modernization, containerization, orchestration, and platform scalability initiatives.
  • Partner with Security and Engineering on cloud security, compliance, application reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Lead infrastructure architecture decisions and mentor engineers across teams.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for production systems.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Software Engineering.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS.
  • Strong software engineering background with the ability to write production-quality code and automation.
  • Expert-level Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
  • Deep experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Extensive experience with observability, distributed tracing, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Strong understanding of networking, security, Linux systems administration, and cloud architecture.
  • Experience supporting high-traffic SaaS applications and mission-critical production environments.
  • Ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and mentor engineers across teams.
  • Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.

Benefits

  • 22 days of PTO plus public holidays.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • Hybrid, full-time position working from the Austin, Texas office in the Arboretum Area.
  • Compensation is based on experience.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
ShipperHQ

About ShipperHQ

51-200 employees

ShipperHQ provides a SaaS platform that lets eCommerce merchants manage shipping at checkout, including real-time carrier rates, delivery options, and rules-based fulfillment. Headquartered in Austin, Texas and privately held, it supports thousands of brands in 150+ countries across DTC and enterprise retail. The business is subscription-based, offering checkout optimization and shipping rate management tools to control costs and delivery transparency at checkout.

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