[Remote] Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation, developing solutions to improve health systems. They are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to define and scale reliability practices across large-scale cloud platforms, focusing on automation and AI-enabled operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive SRE standards across teams
• Lead implementation of:
• SLOs, SLIs, error budgets
• Observability (metrics, logs, tracing)
• Resiliency patterns (failover, self-healing)
• Improve reliability through automation and proactive risk mitigation
• Drive reliability practices in Azure environments
• Apply AIOps (anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, automation)
• Influence engineering teams without direct authority

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, or Cloud Engineering
• Experience influencing multiple teams or platforms without direct ownership
• Demonstrated experience improving reliability through automation, tooling, or AI-enabled approaches
• Proven hands-on expertise in: Reliability engineering (SLOs, SLIs, incident management, observability)
• Distributed systems in cloud environments (Azure preferred)
• Solid understanding of system design, performance, scalability, and failure modes
• Experience implementing AI/ML or AIOps solutions in production environments (e.g., anomaly detection, alert optimization, automation)
• Experience standardizing observability frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry or similar)
• Experience working in complex enterprise or regulated environments
• Background supporting large-scale, mission-critical systems
• Proven ability to influence senior technical stakeholders
• Location: MN

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

Company Overview

Optum provides primary care and optical care services. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://nm.optum.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Optum has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 185 in 2026, 648 in 2025, 559 in 2024, 620 in 2023, 851 in 2022, 593 in 2021, 438 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.