Principal, SRE
Northern Trust1 day ago
Base Salary
$137k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Create, own, and continuously improve practical, measurable resiliency guidelines for technology management and application teams.
- Define reference architectures, architectural guardrails, maturity models, and reliability standards for resilient, observable, and operable systems.
- Support incident response and root cause analysis by identifying systemic failure modes, resiliency gaps, and preventive measures.
- Develop infrastructure configuration, application lifecycle management, and operational automation to improve consistency and resiliency.
- Implement and improve monitoring and observability capabilities, including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Contribute targeted code, validate architectural decisions through implementation, and partner with engineers on critical components.
- Build and sustain an SRE community of practice while collaborating with product, development, operations, and technology leadership teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience evolving reliable, scalable system architectures using availability, resiliency, and fault-tolerance patterns.
- Experience translating architectural standards into practical implementations with engineering and operations teams.
- Experience across cloud and on-premises environments with an architectural focus on consistency, observability, and operational maturity.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and modern application architectures.
- Hands-on experience with observability solutions and standards for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, C#, or Java.
- Proficiency with at least one infrastructure-as-code or configuration-management language such as Terraform, Bicep/ARM, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
- Experience delivering Infrastructure as Code and application deployment automation through CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain architectural trade-offs and reliability strategies to diverse stakeholders.
Benefits
- Salary range is $137,400-$233,600 USD in base pay.
- Comprehensive benefits include retirement benefits with 401(k) and pension, medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life and accident insurance, and voluntary and well-being benefits.
- A discretionary bonus program may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with flexibility in working requirements, accessible senior leaders, internal mobility, and an inclusive workplace.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.