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.

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