Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Shutterstock
GIPHY
$170-185k
Salary applicable for US candidates, may vary in other locations
Royalty-free media library
Be an early applicant
Royalty-free media library
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-185k
Salary applicable for US candidates, may vary in other locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help creative professionals from all backgrounds and businesses of all sizes produce their best work with incredible content and innovative tools, all on one platform.
Role
Who you are
- Expert-level knowledge and significant professional experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) operations and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly Terraform and Atlantis
- Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, mainly Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong experience with operating, designing and troubleshooting AWS infrastructure, especially EKS, S3, EC2 and VPC
- Ability to design and implement cost-effective solutions and proactively identify cost-optimization opportunities
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals, with deep knowledge of Linux and networking and the ability to diagnose complex reliability and performance issues across the OS, network, container, and cloud infrastructure layers
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Github Actions and deployment tooling such as Helm, Spinnaker and ArgoCD
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, Go or Rust
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog and AWS CloudWatch, including diagnosing production reliability and performance issues
- Experience with agentic engineering and effectively applying AI-assisted development practices
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and initiative, proactively identifying areas for improvement and independently driving work around optimization, cost reduction, patching, upgrades, and technical debt
What the job involves
- GIPHY is seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team. You will help design, build, operate, and evolve the infrastructure that powers GIPHY, including our cloud environment, Kubernetes clusters, and CI/CD platforms
- You will also work closely with our development teams to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency of our systems, while ensuring code can be deployed safely and efficiently across the organization
- You will also play a key role in responding to production incidents, troubleshooting complex issues across the infrastructure stack, and driving improvements based on what we learn from them
- GIPHY serves internet-scale traffic every day, so the ideal candidate must be comfortable with operating large and distributed systems and solving problems at scale. Your work will directly impact billions of daily users, alongside some of the world’s largest social media platforms and apps
- Operate and evolve GIPHY’s cloud and CDN presence, ensuring resources are reliable, performant, scalable and cost-efficient
- Continuously improve and optimize our CI/CD platform to enhance developer experience and deployment reliability
- Drive the implementation of multi-region Kubernetes clusters while operating and improving our existing Kubernetes environments
- Partner with other Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues, taking a holistic view across our platforms to ensure the reliability and availability of GIPHY’s systems
- Stay current with emerging technologies, particularly agentic development and AI-assisted engineering, and identify opportunities to incorporate them into our platforms and engineering workflows
Our take
Shutterstock is a global leader in licensed images, videos, and music, serving creative professionals like designers, filmmakers, and marketers. Content creators upload their work, which is then used by businesses and media organizations in various projects. It's a two-sided marketplace that fuels creativity worldwide.
Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities. Their aim is to build sophisticated tools to help the world experience images and videos in a more beautiful way - they believe that the harmonious union of design and technology can influence global communication.
Shuttershock's brand portfolio includes Bigstock, Offset, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, and Shutterstock Customer, adding hundreds of thousands of images weekly. It has also expanded into generative AI, fairly licensing artists' work for AI-generated content. And in 2026, the company announced a huge proposed merger of equals with Getty Images, receiving US regulatory clearance and positioning the combined company for greater scale, financial strength, and long-term innovation.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid model that’s centered around flexibility and enabling collaboration, innovation, and accountability—no matter where we are.
- Connection: Whether online or on site, we make sure there are plenty of ways to connect and have fun.
- Recognition: We never miss an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and commend great work through our global recognition program.
- Empowerment: We offer generous and competitive compensation packages, PTO, wellness initiatives, on-and-off working hours, tuition reimbursement, and an employee referral bonus.
- Growth: Our SkillUP Program lets you take ownership of your personal development through virtual learning offerings.
- Belonging: Our goal is to build a workforce that’s representative of the diverse global community we serve, and where all employees can come to work as their authentic selves.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jon Oringer
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously Board Member at Partnership for New York City for 6 years and Founder, CEO at SurfSecret Software for 5 years.
Paul Hennessy
(CEO)Paul previously held CEO roles at Vroom.com and Priceline.com. He was also the CMO at Booking.com and the Chief Distribution Officer/SVP of Online Marketing at Priceline.com
Rik Powell
(CFO)Rik joined Shutterstock in 2024 as a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations, moving into the role of CFO later that same year. Prior to this, he was a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations at Shake Shack. He also spent over 16 years at Getty Images, joining as a Director before holding various roles and becoming CFO.
Sara Birmingham
(Chief Human Resource Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2020, Sara was a HR Advisor at Out East. She was also the founder of Jump HR Consulting where she served as the CEO for just over 1 year. Prior to this, she spent 18 years at Thomson Reuters in various HR roles.
John Lapham
(General Counsel)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2021, John was part of the General Counsel and SVP Government Affairs at Rover.com. He was also on the General Counsel and an SVP of Digital Media, Technology and eCommerce sectors at Getty Images for nearly 15 years.
Aimee Egan
(Chief Enterprise Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2023, Aimee was the CCO at ACA Group. She also spent over 11 years at Thomson Reuters in various roles, including VP of Growth and Market Development and GM of Small/Mid Market Corporations.
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