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 highly available, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure.
  • Architect and standardize Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code across environments.
  • Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery.
  • Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, reliability standards, and incident-management practices.
  • Lead observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis initiatives.
  • Build self-service platform capabilities and automation for engineering teams.
  • Drive containerization, orchestration, infrastructure modernization, and platform scalability.
  • Partner with Security and Engineering on cloud security, compliance, application reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Lead infrastructure architecture decisions, evaluate technologies, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Software Engineering.
  • Proven 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 multiple 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.
  • Full-time hybrid position working from the Austin, Texas office in the Arboretum Area.
  • Opportunities for career progression and collaborative learning in a fast-paced engineering culture.

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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