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Principal DevOps Engineer

San Jose (CA)💼 Full-time💰 $146,700–$146,700🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Leading deep-dive investigations, designing deployment pipelines, and driving reliability for real-time media systems and cloud infrastructure.

Role type

Principal DevOps Engineer (SRE)

Builds

Cloud and Colocation infrastructure, CI/CD automation, containerization strategies, and hybrid data center environments.

Domain

Telecommunications, Real-time media, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux systems administration, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing), distributed systems design, low-latency backend operations, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipeline design, fault isolation, resilience engineering, postmortem analysis, SLO/SLI definition.

Preferred skills

Experience with colocation data center hardware provisioning, real-time communication protocols (WebRTC, MMR), global team collaboration across time zones.

Technologies

Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, OCI

Responsibilities

Leading deep-dive investigations to uncover architectural or operational bottlenecks in real-time media systems. Designing and implementing improvements in deployment pipelines and CI/CD automation. Partnering with product owners to enhance containerization strategy and resource efficiency. Modernizing hybrid infrastructures spanning colocation data centers and cloud providers. Driving system observability and resilience engineering to meet strict SLAs. Providing technical mentorship and championing data-driven reliability practices.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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