Site Reliability Engineer, Synthesia
Platform Engineer
AI video creation platform
Job no longer available
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- Has worked in a fast paced Scale Up positioned business, seeing product and company numbers increase significantly and who played a part in making that successful
- Can self-manage and deliver multiple projects as part of a quarterly planning cycle within a team
- Is an excellent communicator and can partner with engineers to solve both structural/systemic problems and those which are time critical (live operations)
- Can work with clarity when under pressure during operational incidents
- Enjoys helping others achieve their goals though collaboration; DevOps is a culture not a team name (but yes, it’s our team name right now)
- Has extensive experience running and debugging customer facing Production systems, in a SaaS environment, at scale
- Has extensive experience working with containers, orchestrators and autoscaling/self-healing/low operations systems.
- We’re very interested in people with strong Kubernetes experience (EKS)
- We’re very interested in the people with the intersection of CloudNative+GPU+High workloads
- MongoDB Atlas. We’re very interested in people with strong Mongo experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a seasoned engineer with a strong SRE or Platform Engineering focus to join our team support our product engineering teams
- When you join you’ll focus on a type of work (SRE, Platform Engineering or Developer Experience) with an 80/20 split on your area and everything else
- Work with engineering teams to design, evolve and run high-volume, customer facing systems, both new and existing, including those which aren’t sticking to our golden path supported by Platform Engineering
- Deliver projects which expand the capabilities of our shared platform. This includes everything from Source Code management and Service Patterns, through Build and Deploy, right though Container Orchestration and finishes with our Metrics and Alerting systems. We aim to provide a Golden Path for Engineers that makes them happy, productive and efficient
- Being a member of our on-call rota, which may include working out of hours. We have a one week rotation, swapping on a Tuesday, managed by PagerDuty, with the team lead being available for escalation at all times and in the on-call rota themselves
- You will not have any direct reports, but will play a part in development and support of your peers. Your role could evolve into a Team Lead if that is the way you want to take it in the future
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2026
$200m
SERIES E
Apr 2025
$13.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $550m
Company benefits
- 📍You will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- 💸 Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
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