What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Site Reliability Engineer position at iSpot?
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Job Description
iSpot.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 a leader with the skills and passion to make a significant impact on our developer ecosystem. You will have a wide array of projects to tackle, with ample opportunities for growth.
You will be a key member of our engineering 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:
Our SRE team needs an experienced Developer Experience focused SRE leader to help us attain our goals: to empower engineering teams by creating or implementing intuitive tools, optimizing workflows, and fostering a seamless development experience. We aim to enhance productivity, collaboration, and innovation by delivering robust solutions that remove friction, streamline processes, and support the continuous evolution of engineering excellence. 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.
- Lead the technical direction of the team while remaining a key individual contributor in designing and implementing self-service tools and platforms that enable developers to provision infrastructure and deploy applications independently.
- Guide and mentor senior engineers on the team, while also directly enhancing the developer experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines, automating manual tasks, and reducing build times.
- Lead the team in building and managing scalable and reliable infrastructure on AWS, including services like EC2, S3, EKS, and Redshift, with a focus on ease of use for developers.
- Maintain and improve our container orchestration and deployment tools, leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD to create seamless developer workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs, gather feedback, and create solutions that directly address their pain points.
- Promote best practices in areas like code quality, testing, and security, integrating them directly into the development pipeline.
- Develop and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation and tutorials for all internal developer tools and platforms.
- Drive the technical roadmap for the DevEx team, balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic goals.
- Develop, implement, and maintain a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve the developer experience across all of Engineering.
Qualifications and Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of relevant experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or lead role.
- Excellent communication skills. This team spends much of its time collaborating with other teams inside and outside the Engineering organization.
- Experience with researching and selecting new/modern developer toolsets and assisting teams in adopting them including vendor assessments, security assessments and procurement process.
- Strong working knowledge of AWS, including EKS, ECR, RDS, SQS/SNS, VPC, MWAA and S3.
- 5 years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization in general, including associated tools (kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD).
- 3 or more years working with AWS EKS deployments, runtime, and monitoring.
- Strong knowledge of AWS costs and how to reduce them.
- TCP/IP networking, including routing and AWS security groups.
- Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and experience developing associated pipelines.
- Proficient in high-level scripting languages, including shell scripting, Python, and/or JavaScript.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk or DataDog.
- Experience with evaluating and rolling out GenAI tools for improving developer efficiency.
- Working knowledge of automated software testing concepts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts with experience implementing them.
- Experience with developer-focused platforms like Backstage or similar internal portals.
- Familiarity with observability tools and how to integrate them into developer workflows.
- Experience with platform engineering or internal developer platforms.
- Certifications in AWS or Kubernetes.
- Experience with one or more of CircleCI, Snyk, Codecov, Airflow/MWAA
- Proficiency with Terraform/Terragrunt
Target cash compensation range: $163,620 - $212,710 USD Annually
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Those local or living in surrounding areas to one of our offices (Bellevue, WA; El Segundo, CA; New York, NY) will work a hybrid schedule, coming into their local office 1-3 days a week. While those in a role, not office-based and located further away from our offices, will work a fully remote schedule. 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.
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Salary : $163,620 - $212,710