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Senior Staff Software Engineer Site Reliability and Infrastructure

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Summary

Senior Staff SRE/Infrastructure engineer in NYC who owns the on-call rotation, leads incident response and postmortems, and scales infrastructure and relational databases to keep video ingestion and social features reliable. Core stack: Terraform, GCP (Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging), Elasticsearch, MySQL/PostgreSQL, GitHub Actions CI/CD.

You will own the on-call rotation, lead incident response and postmortems, and partner with engineers on infrastructure needs. You will scale infrastructure and databases, implement durable fixes, and improve reliability for video ingestion and social features.

Responsibilities

  • Own the on-call rotation
  • Lead incident response
  • Drive actionable postmortems that prevent recurrence
  • Work with engineering teams to meet infrastructure needs
  • Scale infrastructure and relational databases
  • Implement durable fixes for reliability issues
  • Communicate issues rapidly during incidents

Requirements

  • Strong Terraform infrastructure-as-code experience at scale
  • Hands-on Elasticsearch experience for user-facing features
  • GCP experience, including Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, and managed services
  • Experience scaling and sharding MySQL or PostgreSQL databases in production
  • Incident response and postmortem experience
  • GitHub Actions CI/CD experience in production
  • Experience in startups or rapid-growth environments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Fertility and parental benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Daily meals
  • Wellness benefits
  • Commuter benefits at the NYC headquarters
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Equity

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