Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Greystar

The Role

Overview

Lead Azure SRE, building and operating scalable, reliable cloud platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • product architecture
  • customer collaboration
  • tooling automation
  • observability
  • slo management
  • project execution

Tasks

-Influence the product architecture and roadmap to make sure the customer-experienced supportability is always a key consideration when evolving the product. -Collaborate with the customers to understand their pain points around Supportability and SLO attainment and formulate strategies for addressing recurring issues in a sustainable way. -Collaborate closely with engineering teams on building and enhancing tooling and automation solutions for faster resolution of issues impacting SLO’s and averting incidents altogether when possible. -Reliability & Observability: Define SLOs/error budgets; instrument metrics/logs/traces with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana; create actionable alerts and runbooks. -Takes initiative and drives projects from conception to completion.

Requirements

  • 5+ years
  • devops
  • azure
  • terraform
  • aks
  • observability

What You Bring

-5+ years in software engineering, network engineering, DevOps, or systems administration. -Comfort building net-new systems in a fast-moving, startup-like environment. -3+ years operating large-scale cloud services in Azure. -Proven incident management, change control, and documentation/runbook craft. -Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams. -Strong DevOps skills: Terraform/Bicep, GitOps/CI-CD, and scripting (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell). -Background in investment management or multifamily real estate. -Deep AKS operations (Helm, upgrades, HPA/KEDA, backups) and Azure networking (VNets/peering, Private Link, App Gateway/WAF, Front Door/DNS). -Observability expertise (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL, App Insights, Prometheus/Grafana).

Benefits

-401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service. -Employee Assistance Program. -Onsite Property Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly bonus programs. -Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000 (includes adoption or surrogacy). -Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service. -Benefits offered for full-time employees. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles, compensation and benefits may vary from the listed information above due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority. -Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure. -Corporate Positions: In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible to participate in a quarterly or annual bonus program based on individual and company performance. -Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans. -6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter). -For onsite team members, onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability. -Charitable giving program and benefits.

The Company

About Greystar

-Born in 1993 in Houston and now rooted in Charleston, its founder transformed a niche multifamily operator into a global real-estate powerhouse. -Today it owns, develops, invests in and manages a wide range of rental assets — from apartments and student beds to labs and logistics hubs. -Greystar has shaped skylines with projects like build-to-rent towers in the U.S. and Europe, student villages in Australia and modular living factories in Pennsylvania. -Specialisms span multifamily, student housing, active-adult and single-family rentals, logistics/industrial facilities, life-science campuses and modular construction. -Strategic bets include modular homes, life-science labs, single-family rentals and logistics distribution centers — marking it a versatile real-estate innovator. -With a reputation for vertical integration — managing assets, investments and construction in-house — it stands out in an industry of fragmented players.

Sector Specialisms

Active Adult

Life Science

Logistics

Single Family Rental

Student

Modular