Principal, Staff Site Reliability

Responsibilities

• Participate in a leader-level on-call rotation; run blameless postmortems and drive systemic fixes to closure.
• Mentor senior engineers; set the bar for infrastructure code review, production readiness reviews, and reliability practice across the org.

Preferred

• Prior experience in financial services, buy-side, or another regulated environment (SOC 2, SOX, GLBA).

Required experience

• 10+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale, including hybrid cloud
• + on-prem.
• Deep expertise in

AWS

and

• Azure compute, networking, IAM, and managed data services; comfortable with account/project topology, landing zones, and org-level guardrails.
• Expert-level
• Linux

Terraform

Ansible, and modern

CD

• (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo, or equivalent).
• Track record of measurable improvements in platform reliability, MTTR, deployment velocity, and developer productivity.
• Strong scripting/software skills in Python and/or Go; can read and refactor application code well enough to debug across the stack.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, service meshes, and container security posture.
• Fluency with observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/Splunk).
• Experience running incident command and driving durable postmortem outcomes.

Nice to have

Hands-on work with

AI

LLM tooling for SRE

• agentic incident response, RAG over runbooks/telemetry, or automated RCA.
• Experience with data-center automation, colocation, or modular infrastructure.
• FinOps depth: unit economics, cost attribution, and budget governance across AWS/Azure.
• The compensation range for this position is for a full-time employee in New York. The base salary offered will depend on qualifications, market data and internal equity.

Base Salary Range

$210,000

$230,000 USD

At DigitalBridge, we strive to create an inclusive environment where diverse employees want to work and where they can flourish professionally. In furtherance of our culture, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.