[Hiring] Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Observability @Referral Board

Role Description

We're looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join the Observability Solution as part of the team building the next generation of Infrastructure Observability experiences leveraging the new Search AI and agentic capabilities.

• Collaborate with product management, product design, customers, and multiple teams across Elastic (especially our own SRE teams) in defining and evolving the end-to-end InfraObs experiences that enable both human and agentic users.
• Deliver and continually evolve the experiences leveraging the Elastic Platform capabilities and coding agents.
• Be a contact point for other teams within Elastic, helping Support with difficult cases or aligning with teams providing the foundations for developing integrations.
• Consult with the Elastic Stack engineers on designing new features.
• Foster a culture of mutual respect, collaboration, and consensus-based decision-making.
• Be an awesome person to work with, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others.

Qualifications

• This is a role for practitioners, so we are looking for engineers with an SRE background and experience operating large-scale production services with the help of Observability tools.
• Proficiency operating production infrastructure in K8s and at least one of the three major CSPs.
• Proficiency using Observability tools.
• Working with a high level of autonomy, able to tackle projects and guide them from beginning to end, covering both technical design and working with other engineers to develop needed components.
• Ability to use AI coding agents in the delivery workflow.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Collaborating on the internet is hard; we try to be supportive, empathetic, and trusting in all of our interactions.

Requirements

• Experience as a user of the Elastic Stack (Bonus Points).

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.