Mitchell International
Principal Reliability Engineer
US--Remote
Job ID: 26-18891
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Information Technology
Mitchell International, Inc.
Overview
At Enlyte, we combine innovative technology, clinical expertise, and human compassion to help people recover after workplace injuries or auto accidents. We support their journey back to health and wellness through our industry-leading solutions and services. Whether you're supporting a Fortune 500 client or a local business, developing cutting-edge technology, or providing clinical services you'll work alongside dedicated professionals who share your commitment to excellence and make a meaningful impact. Join us in fueling our mission to protect dreams and restore lives, while building your career in an environment that values collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.
Be part of a team that makes a real difference.
Responsibilities
This is a full-time remote position that can be located anywhere in the U.S.
The Principal Reliability Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for the reliability, observability, and operational control of enterprise platforms and services. This role owns the design and evolution of the reliability control plane, including visibility, telemetry, alerting, and integrations across monitoring, incident management, and automation tooling.
At the Principal level, this role leads complex, high‑impact reliability initiatives, defines standards for observability and operational readiness, and partners closely with Cloud, Platform, Security, and Application teams to ensure systems are resilient, measurable, and operable at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the reliability control plane, including standards and architecture for monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident management.
- Define how services expose health, performance, and operational signals across the enterprise.
- Establish and evolve reliability patterns and reference architectures adopted across teams.
- Lead design decisions that improve system resilience, fault tolerance, and recoverability.
- Own integrations between platforms and reliability tooling (monitoring, alerting, incident response, on-call, and automation systems).
- Define consistent approaches to telemetry collection, normalization, and consumption.
- Ensure observability tooling provides actionable visibility aligned to service-level objectives.
- Evaluate and recommend tooling improvements that enhance visibility and operational insight.
- Lead complex reliability initiatives impacting multiple systems or platforms.
- Partner with engineering teams to design reliable, observable services from inception.
- Drive adoption of best practices for operational readiness, graceful degradation, and failure handling.
- Review system designs to ensure reliability and observability requirements are met.
- Establish standards for alerting quality, escalation, and incident response.
- Drive improvements in incident detection, diagnosis, and recovery.
- Lead or support root cause analysis for significant incidents and ensure durable corrective actions.
- Promote a culture of operational excellence and continuous reliability improvement.
- Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor on reliability and observability.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence reliability practices across teams.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Security, and Platform leaders to align reliability strategy with business needs.
Qualifications
- 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or
equivalent professional experience. - Extensive experience designing and operating reliable, observable systems at scale.
- Proven success owning or leading observability and incident management platforms.
- Background in cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering strongly preferred.
- Deep expertise in reliability engineering, observability, and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident management concepts.
- Experience integrating and operating reliability tooling at enterprise scale.
- Solid grasp of cloud and platform architectures and their operational characteristics.
- Ability to translate operational risk and system behavior into actionable engineering improvements.
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