Principal Engineer

Sun Life U.S. is one of the largest providers of employee and government benefits, helping approximately 50 million Americans access the care and coverage they need. Through employers, industry partners and government programs, Sun Life U.S. offers a portfolio of benefits and services, including dental, vision, disability, absence management, life, supplemental health, medical stop-loss insurance, and healthcare navigation. We have more than 6,400 employees and associates in our partner dental practices and operate nationwide.

Visit our website to discover how Sun Life is making life brighter for our customers, partners and communities.  

Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate and highly experienced Principal Engineer to augment our team. As a Principal Engineer on the Infrastructure team you will be a technical leader within the organization and will be responsible for guiding technical strategy, driving innovation, and mentoring junior engineers. You will be overseeing projects, making high-level design decisions, and ensuring technical solutions align with business goals.  

Infrastructure engineers work closely with engineering teams to build and operate the services that make up various product platforms at Sun Life. Here are the key duties that our Engineers perform:   

• Monitoring and updating our infrastructure in Kubernetes and AWS 

• Identifying security gaps and looking for ways to remediate 

• Writing and reviewing Terraform code to manage infrastructure 

• Creating new dashboards and helping teams understand their services 

through monitoring 

• Documenting everything you discover in our docs repo in GitHub 

• Taking on new backlog items in our agile process of two-week 

development iterations 

• Mentoring engineers on operational best practices for their owner- 

operated services 

• Experience with AWS Workspaces a plus 

Technology we use(not exhaustive): 

Amazon Web Services (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, etc), Terraform, CI/CD Tooling, 

and other modern DevOps Technologies. 

Python, goLang, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis 

Requirements 

7+ Years of experience in a software engineering discipline 

Experience debugging infrastructure issues and improving reliability and 

performance 

Experience working in operations or infrastructure in a DevOps or SRE 

environment 

Willingness to participate in On-Call rotations 

Experience working with various AWS Technologies 

Proficiency with at least one language (Python, Ruby, Bash, Go, whatever 

works!) 

Proficiency with Linux 

Handling of security issues, with a background in the field a plus 

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline or equivalent experience 

Salary Range: $127,900 - $191,900

At our company, we are committed to pay transparency and equity. The salary range for this role is competitive nationwide,