Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About your skills

• Scope: You own the end to end development of systems by prioritizing work, understanding user requirements and understanding the tradeoffs between design decisions. You understand the needs of the Organization as a whole. You collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to ensure project success.


• Decision Making: You use critical thinking to follow a defined decision making process and consider multiple perspectives. Upon making a decision, you are clear in your communication and ensure everyone is aligned in execution.


• Coaching: You identify opportunities to improve processes and standards for the team and Engineering org as a whole. You work with stakeholders to execute on these opportunities.

About this role

• At Udemy the SRE team manages infrastructure from our CDN right back as far as Datastores. In between, we own load balancers, kubernetes clusters and CI/CD.


• We build tools to accommodate the needs of our internal customers.


• We respond to incidents and drive standards of reliability across the organisation.


• A principal engineer is expected to be a leader across the organisation. They contribute directly to long term planning in close collaboration with Architects and Engineering leadership.


• The oversight of a principal engineer extends beyond the boundaries of the SRE team and they are involved in review of Architectural Decisions for teams right across the Engineering organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• You’ll be a lead on identifying opportunities, designing and executing on projects.


• You’ll act as a mentor to other engineers on the SRE team.


• You’ll champion SRE best practices.


• You’ll participate in an on-call rotation.


• You’ll represent SRE across Engineering.

What you’ll have

• Extensive experience managing Kubernetes clusters and cloud environments.


• Extensive experience using infrastructure as code tools to deploy infrastructure.


• Experience designing bespoke solutions for greenfield projects.


• Experience writing tools and applications using programming languages such as Python, Golang and Kotlin.


• Experience with on-call and incident management. We promote a blameless culture here at Udemy.


• Experience working with a wide variety of engineering teams to guide them on best practices.


• Good communication skills and an ability to both share and receive feedback in a responsible manner.

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