Senior Cloud Engineer, Sovrn
$140-160k
+ Stock Options
Office located in Boulder, CO
Advertising tools & services for content creators
Job no longer available
Advertising tools & services for content creators
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-160k
+ Stock Options
Office located in Boulder, CO
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower independent content creators and publishers to grow their businesses and achieve the attention they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- You are a self-starter and desire to work without micromanagement
- You enjoy being part of a collaborative team but are also independently responsible
- You are energized by technical challenges and solving problems with your team to make better software
- You are security-minded and above all are excited about technology with an endless curiosity to learn
- Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Ability to lead problem definition, solution designs, and define implementation work plans
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Fargate)
- Experience with automation configuration tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, etc.)
- Experience deploying cloud services, monitoring, alerting, and handling critical issues
- Familiarity and experience with L2/L3 networking, DNS, and HAProxy
- Proficiency in BASH, Python, or other scripting languages
- A creative yet analytical mindset with problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Technical curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
- Ability to lead junior and experienced engineers to a common technical goal
Desirable
- Experience in ad tech, ad exchanges, SSPs, or related domains
- Understanding of real-time bidding (RTB) protocols, ad serving technologies, and programmatic advertising
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Application Developer (CKA, CKAD)
- Cloud Certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Java experience
- Experience with large scale, latency-sensitive systems
- Full software development lifecycle experience
- Experience with Cloud-based security protocols
What the job involves
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will have a pivotal role in building and maintaining our cloud systems, porting our systems to new regions and cloud environments, and continually optimizing the operations of those systems
- Some of our key tenets are low latency, high performance, sane architecture, observable systems, operational maturity, and a blameless culture of learning and improvement
- Cloud engineering includes deployment pipelines, software configuration management, infrastructure configuration management, containerization frameworks, monitoring, and performance engineering. You will bring experience with Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps transformation, implementation, and sustaining activities
- Helping manage a large (200B+ requests daily, petabyte-scale) application in the cloud
- Evolving and improving our low-latency, high-performance architecture
- Improving observability and cost-efficiency
- Driving the maturity of our load balancing strategy Advocating for best practices for container management and tools
- Guiding the evolution of cloud native practices, guidelines, patterns, and standards
- Providing technical and architectural/vision alignment guidance and mentorship to other team members
- This position reports to: Manager, Advertising Exchange Engineering
Our take
The monetization of online content creation can be very lucrative but requires time, resources and expertise outside of writing. Passionate writers who focus on storytelling and creating inspiring content may waste valuable time attempting to develop their business, and hiring somebody to do this is often too expensive for independent writers.
Sovrn tackles this in a smart way by providing writers with simple-to-use tools that take the stress out of monetization. It works with publishers and advertisers to provide opportunities to passionate writers, allowing them to focus on excelling at their job rather than dealing with distribution, monetization and operations - all of which Sovrn is able to handle.
The startup claims to be able to drive higher revenues and scale a publishing business, at the same time as allowing writers to focus on what they do best. It has seen significant investment that will enable it to pursue acquisitions and support the further expansion of its platform with more capabilities to be added in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$35.6m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$36m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.6m
Company benefits
- Work at a company that values your strengths. See the results of your actions. There are no barriers at Sovrn
- First-class health benefits, wellness options, and a host of life-improvement perks that help you be the best you
- Retirement benefits, 401k matching, and stock options show we’re equally dedicated to financial health
- In-house barista, catered lunches and breakfasts
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation and a focus on mental and physical health mean you’ll have time for life outside the office
- Learn new skills. Pursue great ideas. Take on new opportunities and thrive in a workplace that rewards your efforts
Company HQ
Boulder, CO
Leadership
Walter Knapp
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Colorado, they worked as a Partner at Cambridge Technology, and Novell Ventures for a combined 6 years. They worked as SuSE Linux at Novel, COO of Lijit Networks, and COO of Federated Media Publishing before leaving in January 2014 to found Sovrn.
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