iSpot
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Bellevue, WA · Principal · Part-time
Work authorization required$164k-$213kDetected 6 days ago
PythonBashDatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningSparkLLMsIncident ResponseStakeholder ManagementProcurementTCP/IPEHR/EMRLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringArgo CD
About the role
- Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.
- We deal with BIG data, operating mainly in AWS with multiple Kubernetes clusters and thousands of servers.
- You will have a wide array of projects to tackle, with ample opportunities for growth.
Responsibilities
- Platform Design and Management: Architect, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and reliable cloud infrastructure in AWS leveraging modern container orchestration technologies.
- 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.
- Platform Strategy: Design, implement, and champion self-service tools, internal developer portals, and services that empower engineering teams to manage their infrastructure and deployments independently and efficiently.
- AI Developer Tools: Lead the standardization of AI developer assistants by architecting and maintaining global 'steering files' and context-configuration standards, ensuring AI-generated code aligns with our specific patterns, security protocols, and architectural guardrails.
- CI/CD Optimization: Own and continuously improve the CI/CD pipelines, reducing build times, streamlining deployment workflows, and integrating best practices for testing, security (Shift Left), and code quality.
- Maintain and improve our container orchestration and deployment tools, leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD to create seamless developer workflows.
- KPIs: Develop, implement, and maintain a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve the developer experience across all of Engineering.
- You will lead the technical direction of the team while remaining a key individual contributor.
- You will be responsible for creating a culture of engineering excellence, designing self-service platforms, and fostering alignment across all engineering teams to accelerate product delivery and maintain world-class service stability.The key responsibilities are:
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep expertise of AWS, including EKS, ECR, RDS, SQS/SNS, VPC, MWAA and S3.
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Specialized experience in optimizing large-scale data platforms, specifically with Apache Spark.
- Proven ability to profile, troubleshoot, and tune Spark jobs for performance, cost, and reliability.
- 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization in general, including associated tools (kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Strong knowledge of AWS cost optimization.
- Experience with evaluating and rolling out GenAI tools for improving developer efficiency.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with proven experience driving technical initiatives across multiple teams.
- Experience with researching and selecting new/modern developer toolsets and assisting teams in adopting them including vendor assessments, security assessments and procurement process.
Nice to have
- Experience with OTel and monitoring tools such as Splunk or DataDog.
- Experience with native AI observability tools is a plus.
- Experience in Ad-Tech or "BIG Data" processing organization is highly preferred
Skills
- iSpot.tv is changing how brands, agencies, and networks measure and assess the impact of TV advertising.
- Guide and mentor senior engineers, promoting SRE/DevEx principles.
- Strategic Leadership and Cross-Team Alignment
Compensation
- $163,620 - $212,710 USD Annually
- We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation.
- The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles.
- In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot's equity plan to receive stock options.
- Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay.
- Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
Benefits
- Proactively drive cross-team alignment on architectural standards, tooling choices, and development workflows to ensure consistency and shared accountability for system health.
- Qualifications and Education
- For more information on total rewards package, go HERE
- Hybrid & Flexible Workplace Policy
- iSpot supports a hybrid and flexible workplace.
- If you have questions regarding exact details of our hybrid & flexible workplace policy, please let your recruiter know and they will discuss with you further.
Company info
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- iSpot is an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
- If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please contact our HR team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.
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