Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform
Blue River Technology · Remote-US
Posted 23 days ago · $174,000 - $305,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Blue River Technology's roles stay open a median of 31 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 100% of Blue River Technology's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Blue River Technology
- high 5 stale, 1 reposted of 13 open
- Hiring momentum
- 21 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Blue River Technology's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Blue River Technology.
About this role
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will be part of the Platform organization, focusing on building and maintaining a Kubernetes-based infrastructure that supports multiple teams and services. Responsibilities include architecting essential infrastructure, developing backend services in Golang, ensuring high availability, and collaborating with product teams to launch new products. The role also involves performance analysis, incident management, and maintaining security and observability measures for the platform.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Blue River Technology as an employer.
What you need
- Min. of 8 years of deep experience in building and maintaining infrastructure for data-intensive, high-availability applications, including six years building and maintaining public cloud solutions.
- Deep understanding of cloud orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Deep understanding of software design methodologies, information systems architecture, object-oriented design, and software design patterns.
- Deep understanding of securing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Kubernetes).
- Deep experience in one or more of the following languages: Golang (preference), Python, JavaScript, Rust.
- Deep experience in CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, ArgoCD Image Updater, Artifactory).
Nice to have
- You are interested in robotic applications and developing software that assists robots.
- You are excited about robotics and the future of automation.
- You are a self-starter with infectious enthusiasm, energy, and problem-solving abilities.
What you get
- Base pay range of $174,000 - $305,000/year depending on experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills.
- Eligible for an annual performance bonus.
- Competitive benefit package.
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Kubernetes and Golang.
- The role may involve on-call responsibilities for production incidents.
- The company emphasizes diversity and inclusion but acknowledges there is more work to do in this area.
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Listed by Blue River Technology on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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