Site Reliability Engineer, Principal

We Are 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 You are the kind of person who notices the small signals before they become loud problems. You pay attention to the moments when work slows down, when decisions get made on partial information, or when teams quietly build workarounds because the system feels unpredictable. You don’t accept that as “just how it is.” You feel a steady pull toward clarity toward making the environment easier to understand, easier to trust, and easier to operate day after day.You are calm in complexity. When priorities shift or inputs conflict, you don’t freeze or overcorrect; you create structure. You ask the questions that reveal what’s actually happening, and you listen carefully to how different groups describe the same issue in different language. You can hold multiple perspectives at once what leaders need to plan, what engineers need to stay productive, what operators need to keep services stable and you naturally look for the shared truth underneath. You thrive on thoughtful trade offs. You don’t chase perfection for its own sake; you aim for decisions that are durable, explainable, and aligned with real constraints. You’re transparent about uncertainty, deliberate about assumptions, and comfortable updating your view as new evidence arrives. You prefer progress that compounds: small improvements that reduce friction, prevent repeat pain, and leave teams with a system that surprises them less over time. What You'll Be Doing Define and maintain a single, opinionated set of KPIs and metric definitions that describe health, performance, utilization, and cost across the EDA/HPC estate. Build executive-ready dashboards and narratives that connect capacity, turnaround time, availability, and spend to concrete decisions and timelines. Translate stakeholder questions from engineering leadership, R&D users, capacity planners, and operations into prioritized analytics requirements, clearly accepting, consolidating, or declining requests. Partner with Observability and data platform teams to integrate data sources, validate data quality, and operationalize reliable pipelines and semantic layers for reporting. Lead demand forecasting and scenario planning, producing capacity options and investment recommendations across on-prem and cloud. Define and operationalize SLIs/SLOs for critical infrastructure services, improving alerting and surfacing reliability and capacity risks before they become incidents. Drive post-incident follow-through by quantifying impact, identifying systemic failure patterns, and prioritizing durable fixes and automation that reduce recurring toil. The Impact You Will Have Create one trusted, shared view of the EDA/HPC estate that replaces competing spreadsheets and anecdotal decision-making. Enable faster, higher-confidence capacity and cloud decisions through forecasts, scenarios, and risk trade-offs tied to real project milestones. Improve engineer productivity by reducing avoidable wait time and unplanned slowdowns through earlier detection of bottlenecks and constraints. Increase infrastructure cost efficiency by making utilization, waste, and unit economics visible and actionable across teams. Strengthen operational maturity with SLO-driven practices that reduce alert noise, clarify service commitments, and focus effort on what matters most. Reduce repeat incidents and recovery time by surfacing systemic failure patterns and driving durable remediation and automation. Improve cross-functional alignment by establishing shared definitions, governance, and planning cadences that keep stakehold