Expel · 2 weeks ago
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$167K/yr - $243K/yr
6+ years expExpel is a company focused on maintaining service reliability and operational excellence. The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will lead project work to enhance platform features, mentor junior engineers, and ensure high standards of uptime within the cloud native ecosystem.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityNetwork SecuritySaaS
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead project work to build and maintain platform features that cut across the Expel product’s reliability, networking, and cloud infrastructure
Contribute by pushing IaC commits daily, with occasional opportunities to write and test application code in Python, Golang, and Javascript
Mentor and motivate service owners on how to use the platform in order to deploy, measure, monitor, and operate their own services at scale
Participate in a weekly support rotation that includes taking the on-call pager and providing nearly on-demand working-hours support to platform users
Lead incident response, triage, and root cause analysis support
Poke fun at our leadership team in creative ways
Qualification
Required
A passion for learning and improving your work product
Significant experience operating Kubernetes within highly distributed environments
Experience running systems in GCP or AWS
Exposure to monitoring and observability infrastructure and standard methodologies
An understanding of infrastructure-as-code practices, tools, and patterns
Some experience developing software in Linux environments, preferably with Python and/or Golang
A customer-minded approach that enables the success of platform users as well as building trust across the organization
A collaborative disposition that allows you to work optimally on and across teams
Six years of systems experience either in operations or development
Benefits
Unlimited PTO
Work location flexibility
Up to 24 weeks of parental leave
Really excellent health benefits
Company
Expel
Expel is a security operations provider that offers managed detection and response, remediation, phishing support, and threat hunting.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$288.8MKey Investors
CapitalGIndex VenturesScale Venture Partners
2022-10-03Series E· $31M
2021-11-18Series E· $140.3M
2020-05-13Series D· $50M
Leadership Team
Dave Merkel
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Justin Bajko
Co-founder and VP, Strategy & Business Development
Recent News
New Enterprise Associates
2025-12-31
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