Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MapLarge develops enterprise software platforms for geospatial analytics, visualization, and decision intelligence. The company is seeking a Principal Engineer, Site Reliability to design, build, and maintain reliable, observable, and high-quality production systems, while owning testing, release safety, SLOs, operational readiness, and incident improvement.
Responsibilities
- Design and build products and features that are operable, testable, observable, and reliable from the start
- Write and review code, including hands-on test automation (e.g., Playwright)
- Build API‑first frameworks and product features for quality, testing, and monitoring- used internally and shipped to customers
- Create native diagnostics and in‑product capabilities (e.g., privacy‑aware “report a bug” flows)
- Define meaningful SLIs/SLOs and stand behind customer‑facing SLAs
- Own production readiness, operational reviews, capacity planning, and reliability tooling
- Own the build, test, and release lifecycle- progressive delivery, CI/CD quality gates, rollback strategy
- Drive test strategy across unit, integration, end‑to‑end, load, and chaos testing
- Strengthen observability: metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
- Lead incident lifecycle discipline and convert findings into durable engineering improvements
Skills
- Must reside in the continental United States
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- Authorized to work in the U.S. with no visa sponsorship
- 10+ years building and architecting production software (.NET/C#, TypeScript, Python, Linux)
- Strong operational lifecycle thinking- designing for operability, failure isolation, and graceful degradation
- Deep experience with SLOs/SLIs/SLAs and error‑budget‑driven decision making
- Hands-on test strategy and automation experience; strong CI/CD quality gate ownership
- Experience owning reliability of user‑facing systems in production
- Track record of building internal tooling as reusable, API‑first product capabilities
- Strong observability skills (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting)
- Experience with performance profiling, load testing, and capacity reasoning
- Experience with high‑volume streaming or real‑time systems
- Reliability design for edge, disconnected, or offline environments
- Chaos/resilience engineering experience
- Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
- Geospatial, big‑data, or high‑throughput analytics experience
- US person status or clearance eligibility
Benefits
- Bonuses
- 401K
- Top-notch health care
- Family-friendly environment
- 100% remote flexibility
- Cutting-edge tech with an A+ team solving complex, meaningful problems
- Collaborative, intelligent, positive, and supportive team culture
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