.Available to anyone in Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Cuba and Venezuela.- Get paid in the currency of your choosing (USD, MXN, R$, COP...).We are seeking a Principal SRE Engineer for a US based tech unicorn.**Responsibilities Include**:- Design and drive consensus for the operational infrastructure of our platform team. This includes how our micro services are provisioned, deployed and rolled out safely, how configurations and networking is managed per environment, and how all systems are monitored, supported, and scaled in production.- Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to identify operational needs proactively and deliver solutions- Write, deliver, and maintain infrastructural services that can be used by directly by development teams, including documentation and support materials- Establish and reinforce healthy software engineering practices - including: code quality, continuous delivery, and automated testing- Aggressively automate all the things and make it easy to do the right thing when it comes to security, reliability, and resource management using GitOps principles. Drive the automation from build Pipelines (Azure DevOps/ Github actions), Kubernetes operators (Flux/Argo) and scaling via KEDA Mentor and force multiply other members of the engineering team -Ensure the uptime and scalability or systems through best practices such as auto-healing and circuit breaking**Requirements**:**Requirements**:- **C1 level English or above**- Experience working with Azure, and preferably AKS- ** **10+ years of professional experience in software development- Experience with distributed systems and highly available backend services- Demonstrated ability to be analytical and have strong problem-solving skills- Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous integration/deployment, infrastructure as code, and automated testing practices- Proven Success operating Azure or similar cloud-native deployment and operational contexts, including Kubernetes, Pulumi/Terraform, and Opentelemetry/New Relic/Datadog- Experience working in an organization that embraces modern infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes, service mesh, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code- E-commerce or Retail experience- Experience running Kubernetes workloads in multiple cloud regions- Ability to collaborate with senior staff and mentor juniors**Benefits**:- This is a fully remote position that does not require US work authorization.-- Work from anywhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Cuba and Venezuela.-- Get paid in the currency of your choosing (USD, MXN, R$, COP...)
