Nexxen
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
New York, NY. Posted 4 days ago
The role
You will serve as a principal reliability partner and technical authority across infrastructure and platform teams. You will set reliability standards and technical direction for the SRE practice across hybrid infrastructure, on-prem and cloud.
What you will do
- Influence application and infrastructure teams on reliability changes.
- Mentor and develop SREs at every level.
- Help drive Nexxen's AI strategy within the SRE space.
- Drive latency and throughput improvements at code and infrastructure levels.
- Lead architectural reliability reviews and map failure domains.
- Design and validate reliability across hybrid infrastructure, on-prem and AWS.
- Drive reliability for core data infrastructure.
- Partner with teams on infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and GitOps workflows.
- Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs and strengthen observability.
- Lead the incident postmortem process and champion proactive failure testing.
Required qualifications
- 8+ years of software development and site reliability or production engineering experience.
- Track record of leading reliability initiatives across multiple teams.
- Ability to influence without authority.
- Mentorship track record.
- Strong understanding of observability practices with hands-on experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
- Code-level performance expertise.
- Deep hybrid cloud expertise, on-prem infrastructure and AWS.
- Hands-on experience with distributed, high-throughput data infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Linux internals and network diagnostics.
- Solid SLO/SLI/error-budget practice.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, CDN behavior.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI-assisted observability and agentic workflows
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- disability insurance
- 401(k)
- EAP
- parental leave
- unlimited vacation
- company-paid holidays
About the company
Nexxen values differences, varied experiences, and collective contribution.