Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Livepeer
$90-130k
+ Employee Stock Option Plan
The fusion of breakthrough video infrastructure and generative AI
Be an early applicant
The fusion of breakthrough video infrastructure and generative AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$90-130k
+ Employee Stock Option Plan
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the world's open video infrastructure, enabling instantly scalable, reliable, and affordable video streaming.
Role
Who you are
- Livepeer AI is looking for an experienced, self-driven SRE Engineer – someone that loves to build tools automate everything and deliver the best production experiences for end users
- They are passionate about keeping all our user-facing services and Livepeer production systems running smoothly
- They specialise in systems (operating systems, storage subsystems, networking, GPU clusters, Docker), while implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systems
- We value reliability. We approach the infrastructure with craft and think a lot about form and function
- You should feel equally at home talking to developers and designers
- We are looking for someone who cares about the reliability of the infrastructure as much as we do
- You will ensure the final product is high quality and works as intended
- Build a technical competent SRE team through a clear set of OKRs
- Build essential tooling to improve the infra ops
- Have run global mission-critical infrastructure
- Have managed systems that handle high request volumes
- Know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell
- Have used configuration management systems
- Have used infrastructure automation tools
- Have implemented CI / CD pipelines
- Have experience with some of the following technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Nginx, Github Actions, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, AWS, Google Cloud, Major CDN vendors, Github Actions, Workflows, managing self-hosted runners, Video streaming technologies (HLS, RTMP, transcoding etc.), COBOL, Web3 / Blockchain, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem
What the job involves
- Provide tech leadership in SRE execution and planning
- Lead complex infra projects for both internal and external stakeholders
- Orchestrate and run our infrastructure
- Add to and tune our monitoring
- Reduce or automate manual processes
- Be on an on-call (PagerDuty) rotation to respond to incidents that impact Livepeer’s availability
- Plan the growth of our infrastructure as we continue to scale
- Vendor management
- Manage the technical roadmap for the SRE team
- Infrastructure cost monitoring and optimisations
- Supporting engineers and improving development workflows
- Talk directly to large customers
- Co-ordinate with team members across timezones
Application process
- Contact: Mariyana Zhou, People Lead – Business Operations
Our take
Livepeer is an AI video development platform that utilizes cutting-edge tech for artificially generated content creation. With a wide range of applications, Livepeer is developing a community equipped with cost-efficient AI and video processing capabilities.
Its video streaming platform offers companies up to 90% in cost savings compared to traditional video cloud providers and promises high reliability, scalability and security on its platform. Utilizing APIs, it’s an easy-to-use video building tool that can dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to develop video content.
Though there's heated debate surrounding its use, AI video generation in its current iteration has a number of useful applications within the business world. The ecosystem of developers that Livepeer is fostering will no doubt continue to scale and see interesting new developments.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$20m
Series B
Jul 2021
$20m
Series B
Total funding: $51m
Company benefits
- Token package: Competitive token package with a 3-year vesting schedule
- Employee Stock Option Plan: Competitive ESOP with 4-year vesting and a 1-year cliff
- Annual Adjusted Salaries: Every January, we review and adjust pay
- Holidays: 25 vacation days per year plus any national holidays
- A day off on your birthday - because you deserve to celebrate! (If it falls on a weekend, take another day off that week.)
- Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance in applicable locations
- Pension: Company pension contributions in applicable locations
- Equipment: Choose a laptop of your preference and anything you need for a comfortable work setup (we’ll purchase it for you)
- Remote Work: Work anywhere in the world
- Flexible Working: Flexible hours to support work-life balance
- Annual Company Retreat: Once a year, we fly the whole company to an exciting global location for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun—all expenses covered
- Team Meetups: Each team comes together in person once a year to build trust, spark ideas, and share meaningful moments that go beyond the screen
- Work Anniversary Rewards: At Livepeer, we love recognising your journey. As you reach 3, 4, 5 years and beyond, you'll be celebrated with gift card rewards
- Celebrate Life’s Big Moments: Whether it’s a wedding, a new baby, or another major milestone, we’ll mark the occasion with a celebration gift
- Referral Bonus: Refer great talent to Livepeer and earn 100 LPT tokens when they’re hired and successfully complete their probation
- Latest Tech: Work with cutting-edge AI and the latest technologies alongside an innovative and entrepreneurial team
Company HQ
New York, USA
Leadership
Eric Tang
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder & CTO at Wildcard. Technical Advisor at Transform Health and was a Member of the Technical Staff at Groupon.
Doug Petkanics
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Wildcard, Member of the Technical Staff at Groupon, Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Hyperpublic and was a Software Developer at Frogmetrics.
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