Principal Engineer, Aviatrix Systems
Site Reliability
$202.9-226.7k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in further locations + Equity
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Secure cloud networking
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Secure cloud networking
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$202.9-226.7k
Salary applicable for US based candidates, may vary in further locations + Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to accelerate innovation, minimize downtime, and gain control of IT costs.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about building resilient infrastructure, automating operations, and ensuring system reliability at scale, we'd love to hear from you!
- 8+ years of experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
- Proficiency in Golang or Python is required
- Infrastructure-as-code (IaC): Deep understanding of Terraform core components (e.g., Terragrunt is a bonus) with real-world experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
- At least one cloud service provider experience (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- Good knowledge with Kubernetes (e.g., cdk8s and operators are a bonus)
- Solid experience developing Automation tools and frameworks
- Experience with Logging Solutions (e.g., Loki, Syslog, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Filebeat, Fluentbit, etc.)
- Experience with Monitoring and Metrics Solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics)
- Practical experience with Linux system administration
- Experience with Version control system (e.g., Git, GitHub) and code review
- Excellent communication skills are required
What the job involves
- The Aviatrix SRE team is a small but highly skilled global group of Systems Engineers/SREs dedicated to ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Aviatrix’s critical systems and services
- Our mission is to build and maintain a robust, resilient infrastructure that enables Aviatrix to deliver high-quality services with agility through automation, best practices, and a culture of operational excellence
- As an SRE – Principal Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems
- You’ll focus on automation, proactive monitoring, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to drive efficiency and reliability across our services
- Kubernetes – Manage application lifecycles, automate operational tasks, troubleshoot issues, integrate monitoring and alerting, optimize infrastructure, and ensure reliable operations using custom-built operators and cdk8s
- Terraform – Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to enable rapid provisioning, seamless configuration changes, and efficient scaling
- Automation & Development – Build and enhance automation tools and frameworks in Golang and Python to streamline operations
- Ensure Reliability and Availability: You will ensure uptime for crucial services and systems based on business required SLOs. Minimize service disruptions through proactive monitoring, capacity planning and fault-tolerant design
- Architecture and System Design: you will design and architect complex, scalable and reliable systems
- Automation and Efficiency: you will develop and implement automation tools and frameworks to automate routine tasks to reduce human error and to streamline and improve operational processes to increase efficiency
- Build Observability and Monitoring tools: you will define, build, deploy, maintain, and extend our observability and monitoring tools to enhance system reliability and availability
- Incident Management and Response: you will maintain an effective on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 coverage. You will respond to incident response procedures to swiftly address and mitigate service disruptions
- Performance Monitoring and SLIs/SLOs: you will help define and monitor Service level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives to set clear expectations for system performance
- Collaboration: you will work closely with product engineering to ensure service-level objectives and reliability targets are met
- Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting: you respond to escalations by troubleshooting complex system and application incidents, perform root cause analysis, implement necessary corrective actions
- Thought Leadership and Innovation: Stay up to date with latest industry trends, emerging technologies. Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of development and deliverables
- We maintain a structured on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 coverage:
- During Business Hours (rotates every 2 days)
- EST: 9 AM – 6 PM
- CST: 8 AM – 5 PM
- PST: 6 AM – 3 PM
- Outside Business Hours (6 PM – 9 AM PT, rotates weekly: Monday to Monday)
Our take
Aviatrix is trying to modernise cloud technology by overcoming the isolation of different clouds that are built and operated by different companies. Its software facilitates multi-cloud networking, providing visualization, smooth data access, and firewall management.
The cloud revolution caused a mass migration of companies’ data from on-premise storage to cloud storage, but this migration is still ongoing. Aviatrix’s software helps with this migration and then allows these clouds to communicate with each other, while maintaining security, data integrity, automation, and user friendliness.
The rapid growth and enormous potential in this market has been noted by other companies and while investments are currently high, the space is likely to become crowded as competitors such as Site24x7 offer similar services. However, Aviatrix is a well-placed early adopter in an area of networking that hasn’t seen true innovation for years. It has also been named as one of 2024 's fastest growing private companies by Inc 5000, indicating its strong position.
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Insights
-30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $340.8m
Company benefits
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
- Flexible Vacation
- Up to $1000 education reimbursement anually
- World-class coverage - we pay 100% of employee premiums and 88% of the family cost 🇺🇸
- 401K 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
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Leadership
Sherry Wei
(Advisor)Having taken a PhD at Purdue University, they worked in Technical Staff at Centillion Networks and Ardent Communications before spending almost 14 years at Cisco Systems as an Engineer Manager. They then worked at Huawei for just over a year before founding Aviatrix in January 2013.
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