Site Reliability Engineer, Principal

Technology, Data & Digital · IT Infrastructure & Security · Site Reliability Engineering · Systems Engineering

In short

Synopsys seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to manage the EDA/HPC estate's health, performance, and cost through defined KPIs and executive dashboards. This role involves leading demand forecasting, capacity planning, and defining SLIs/SLOs to improve reliability and engineer productivity.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain KPIs and metric definitions for health, performance, utilization, and cost across the EDA/HPC estate.
Build executive-ready dashboards and narratives connecting capacity, turnaround time, availability, and spend to concrete decisions.
Translate stakeholder questions into prioritized analytics requirements.
Partner with Observability and data platform teams to integrate data sources, validate data quality, and operationalize pipelines.
Lead demand forecasting and scenario planning, producing capacity options and investment recommendations.
Define and operationalize SLIs/SLOs for critical infrastructure services.
Drive post-incident follow-through by quantifying impact, identifying systemic failure patterns, and prioritizing durable fixes and automation.

Requirements

Deep, hands-on understanding of EDA/HPC shared infrastructure and engineering workflows (compute farms, schedulers, license services, storage, networks, interactive environments, cloud).
Strong quantitative mindset and comfort turning messy operational data into clear insights using SQL, Python (or similar), and modern analytics tooling.
Track record of defining meaningful SLIs/SLOs, improving instrumentation, and building alerting that drives action.
Experience owning requirements and metric definitions in partnership with observability and data platform teams.
Proactive reliability approach, using automation, guardrails, and continuous improvement to reduce toil and prevent recurring issues.
Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure initiatives end-to-end through ambiguity.
Clear, executive-ready communication, translating technical trade-offs into decisions that balance reliability, performance, cost, and long-term sustainability.

Desired Qualifications

Decisive about what matters, consistently turning many competing requests into a small set of high-leverage questions and priorities.
Approaches ambiguity with structure, making assumptions explicit, testing them quickly, and updating direction as evidence changes.
Communicates with precision and calm under pressure, keeping teams aligned on restoration, learning, and durable follow-through.
Builds trust through transparency, inviting critique early, sharing context openly, and closing loops reliably with stakeholders.
Challenges ideas constructively, surfacing trade-offs and second-order effects while keeping the conversation grounded in outcomes.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans.
ETO and FTO Programs for time away.
Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
ESPP to purchase Synopsys common stock at a 15% discount.
Retirement plans that vary by region and country.
Competitive salaries.
Potential eligibility for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses.
Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits.
The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education.

Skills

SQLPython

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