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Compensation

packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard

Benefits

Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great. tv is changing how brands, agencies, and networks measure and assess the impact of TV advertising. We deal with BIG data, operating mainly in AWS with multiple Kubernetes clusters and thousands of servers.

We are looking for an experienced SRE leader with the skills and passion to make a significant impact on our ecosystem. You will have a wide array of projects to tackle, with ample opportunities for growth. You will be a key member of our SRE leadership team, focused on empowering developers to build, test, and deploy applications faster and more efficiently.

You will both lead the team and remain hands-on in designing, building, and maintaining the tools, platforms, and processes that improve our engineering teams' productivity and streamline the software development lifecycle. Your work will directly impact developer happiness and the speed at which we can deliver innovative features to our customers.

Responsibilities

: We are seeking a seasoned and strategic Lead/Principal Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core production systems while significantly enhancing the internal developer experience. This role sits at the intersection of operations and development, requiring deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and a passion for optimizing the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Our team consists of senior engineers who work together with minimal supervision to attain those goals.

Candidates must possess deep operational experience with AWS and Kubernetes to support teams utilizing these systems. You will lead the technical direction of the team while remaining a key individual contributor.

Key Responsibilities

are: System Reliability and Operations (SRE Focus) Platform Design and Management: Architect, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and reliable cloud infrastructure in AWS leveraging modern container orchestration technologies. Data Pipeline Reliability: Serve as the reliability and cost optimization expert for high-volume, data-intensive workloads. , EMR, Databricks, Glue).

Observability and Monitoring: Establish comprehensive observability practices by defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to quickly identify and resolve system anomalies. Automation: Drive automation across all operational aspects, including infrastructure provisioning (Terraform), scaling, deployment, and incident response, minimizing toil and manual effort. Incident Management: Lead and participate in the incident response lifecycle, performing thorough post-mortems to derive actionable insights and implement preventative measures to improve system resilience.

AIOps: Define and champion the strategic roadmap for AI/ML integration within SRE, establishing organizational best practices for AIOps, automated incident remediation, Toil Reduction via LLMs, and Automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and the governance of LLM-driven tooling to enhance system observability and resilience.