Site Reliability Engineer, Principal

Synopsys•US (non-CA) Off-Site, US (non-CA) Off-Site Office

153d•$161,000 - $242,000•Remote

About The Position

Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. You are someone who naturally looks ahead. You do not wait for infrastructure problems to become urgent before paying attention to them you look for patterns, question assumption and think carefully about what may happen next. You are comfortable working in complex environments where priorities can shift, information may be incomplete and there is rarely a single obvious answer. You approach challenges with curiosity and structure. You enjoy understanding how systems behave, why issues occur and where small improvements can make a meaningful difference over time. You think about reliability not only in terms of fixing what is broken, but in creating environments that are easier to operate, easier to scale and less likely to surprise the teams relying on them. You are thoughtful about trade offs. You understand that the technically perfect solution is not always the right business decision, and you are comfortable balancing reliability, performance, cost, speed, and long term sustainability. You communicate these trade offs clearly, helping others understand both the immediate impact and the longer-term consequences of decisions. You enjoy bringing people together around complex problems. You can work independently and take ownership, but you also value collaboration and seek input from engineering, operations, architecture, and business partners. You ask thoughtful questions, challenge ideas constructively, and build trust through transparency and follow-through. Above all, you are motivated by making things better. You look for ways to simplify complexity, remove recurring pain, improve how teams work, and create systems and processes that remain strong as the organization grows.

Requirements

You have deep, hands-on understanding of enterprise infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and cloud, and you can reason about how changes in one domain affect reliability in another.
You bring a strong quantitative mindset, using statistical thinking, forecasting, and structured analysis to turn messy operational data into clear recommendations.
You have a track record of defining meaningful SLIs/SLOs, instrumenting services for observability, and building alerting that drives action rather than noise.
You bring a proactive reliability approach, designing automation and guardrails that prevent recurring issues and reduce operational toil.
You have led large, cross-functional infrastructure initiatives end-to-end, aligning stakeholders and delivering outcomes through ambiguity and competing priorities.
You communicate with clarity and influence, tailoring technical depth to the audience and building executive-ready narratives that support investment decisions.
You bring a continuous-improvement mindset, challenging the status quo and simplifying processes to raise service maturity over time.
You are at your best in ambiguity, turning incomplete inputs into clear options, tradeoffs, and next steps without waiting for perfect data.
You approach problems with disciplined curiosity, digging past symptoms to understand system behavior and prevent repeat failures.
You are skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders, translating between engineering details and business priorities to drive timely decisions.
You communicate with precision and calm during high-pressure moments, keeping teams focused on restoration, learning, and follow-through.
You are intentional about simplification, consistently reducing toil and process friction so teams can operate reliably at scale.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise capacity strategy and roadmap across compute, storage, network, and cloud to ensure scalable, resilient growth.
Lead long-range demand forecasting and scenario planning, translating business direction into clear infrastructure investment recommendations.
Build executive-ready dashboards and narratives that connect utilization, performance, availability, and cost trends to actionable decisions.
Architect and deliver automation that improves capacity planning accuracy, reduces operational toil, and prevents recurring reliability issues.
Establish governance mechanisms—standards, planning cadences, and prioritization workflows—that align teams on resource allocation and service commitments.
Drive reliability improvements by defining and operationalizing SLOs, strengthening observability, and proactively mitigating scalability and capacity risks.
Lead response and follow-through for major infrastructure events, ensuring rapid stabilization and durable root-cause elimination.