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Principal SRE / Hybrid / Tempe

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCTempe, AZ🇺🇸United StatesPosted Jul 9, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal SRE role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape the reliability strategy for a large-scale consumer technology platform, leveraging modern cloud infrastructure and driving innovation. You'll thrive here if you're a technically deep engineer with a passion for automation, observability, and mentoring others in a hybrid work environment. Apply now to make a significant impact and advance your career with a leading organization.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Leader
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Tempe, AZ, United States
Posted
2 months ago
AWSSplunkAzureBashCloudFormationDatadogGoogle CloudKubernetesPythonTerraform

Job Description

This organization is hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for a full-time hybrid role based in Tempe, Arizona (3 days onsite). The company builds and operates large-scale consumer technology platforms and is investing heavily in modern cloud infrastructure, containerized systems, and reliability engineering practices. This role will focus on designing scalable cloud architecture across AWS environments with additional workloads in Azure and Google Cloud Platform, while driving infrastructure automation and observability across mission-critical production systems.

This is a high-impact principal engineering role where you'll help shape the reliability strategy for a large cloud platform. The team is looking for someone who can dive deep technically while also influencing architecture decisions and mentoring other engineers. Engineers here work in modern environments built around Terraform infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and ECS container platforms, and advanced monitoring and observability tools.

It's an opportunity to step into a leadership-level engineering role where you can guide best practices, build resilient systems, and help scale cloud infrastructure supporting millions of users.

Required Skills & Experience
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
Strong experience supporting large-scale AWS environments
Expertise with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience designing or supporting containerized platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS
Strong Linux systems knowledge
Scripting experience using Bash
Desired Skills & Experience
Python scripting experience
Experience supporting multi-cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Experience implementing monitoring and observability platforms at scale
Experience driving reliability or automation initiatives across engineering teams
Exposure to modern DevOps or platform engineering practices
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
45% Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
25% Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)
15% Containers (Kubernetes / ECS)
15% Observability & Monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, Logging Platforms)
Daily Responsibilities
70% Hands On
15% Architecture & Technical Leadership
15% Team Collaboration & Mentorship
The Offer
Bonus OR Commission eligible
You will receive the following benefits:
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Vacation Time
Stock Options
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

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