Principal Site Reliability Engineer, iSpot.tv
$163.6-212.7k
OTE
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Real-time TV advertisement analytics platform
Open for applications
Real-time TV advertisement analytics platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$163.6-212.7k
OTE
+ Stock Options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unify ad measurement across creative, audience and outcomes to drive optimal video advertising performance for our customers.
Role
Who you are
- Candidates must possess deep operational experience with AWS and Kubernetes to support teams utilizing these systems
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, and/or Site Reliability Engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or lead contributor role
- Deep expertise of AWS, including EKS, ECR, RDS, SQS/SNS, VPC, MWAA and S3
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Specialized experience in optimizing large-scale data platforms, specifically with Apache Spark. Proven ability to profile, troubleshoot, and tune Spark jobs for performance, cost, and reliability
- 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization in general, including associated tools (kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD)
- Strong knowledge of AWS cost optimization
- TCP/IP networking, including routing and AWS security groups
- Excellent knowledge of CI/CD concepts and experience developing associated pipelines in CircleCI
- Proficient in high-level scripting languages, including shell scripting, Python, and/or JavaScript
- Experience with OTel and monitoring tools such as Splunk or DataDog. Experience with native AI observability tools is a plus
- Experience with evaluating and rolling out GenAI tools for improving developer efficiency
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with proven experience driving technical initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience with researching and selecting new/modern developer toolsets and assisting teams in adopting them including vendor assessments, security assessments and procurement process
- Experience in Ad-Tech or “BIG Data” processing organization is highly preferred
What the job involves
- 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 an experienced SRE leader with the skills and passion to make a significant impact on our ecosystem
- You will have a wide array of projects to tackle, with ample opportunities for growth
- You will be a key member of our SRE 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
- We are seeking a seasoned and strategic Lead/Principal Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core production systems while significantly enhancing the internal developer experience
- This role sits at the intersection of operations and development, requiring deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and a passion for optimizing the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Our team consists of senior engineers who work together with minimal supervision to attain those goals
- You will lead the technical direction of the team while remaining a key individual contributor
- You will be responsible for creating a culture of engineering excellence, designing self-service platforms, and fostering alignment across all engineering teams to accelerate product delivery and maintain world-class service stability
- Platform Design and Management: Architect, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and reliable cloud infrastructure in AWS leveraging modern container orchestration technologies
- Data Pipeline Reliability: Serve as the reliability and cost optimization expert for high-volume, data-intensive workloads
- Focus on optimizing and ensuring the stability of distributed data processing engines, specifically Apache Spark and related ecosystems (e.g., EMR, Databricks, Glue)
- Observability and Monitoring: Establish comprehensive observability practices by defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to quickly identify and resolve system anomalies
- Automation: Drive automation across all operational aspects, including infrastructure provisioning (Terraform), scaling, deployment, and incident response, minimizing toil and manual effort
- Incident Management: Lead and participate in the incident response lifecycle, performing thorough post-mortems to derive actionable insights and implement preventative measures to improve system resilience
- Developer Experience and Productivity (DevEx Focus)
- Platform Strategy: Design, implement, and champion self-service tools, internal developer portals, and services that empower engineering teams to manage their infrastructure and deployments independently and efficiently
- CI/CD Optimization: Own and continuously improve the CI/CD pipelines, reducing build times, streamlining deployment workflows, and integrating best practices for testing, security (Shift Left), and code quality
- Maintain and improve our container orchestration and deployment tools, leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD to create seamless developer workflows
- KPIs: Develop, implement, and maintain a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve the developer experience across all of Engineering
- Mentorship and Documentation: Guide and mentor senior engineers, promoting SRE/DevEx principles
- Develop clear, comprehensive documentation and tutorials to ensure seamless adoption of new tools and platforms
- Cost and Efficiency: Strategically identify and implement opportunities for cloud cost optimization and resource efficiency without compromising reliability or performance
- III. Strategic Leadership and Cross-Team Alignment
- Architecting the Roadmap: Define, champion, and communicate the long-term technical roadmap for the SRE and DevEx platforms, balancing immediate operational needs with strategic, future-state goals
- Driving Cross-Team Alignment: Act as a critical liaison between infrastructure, security, and product development teams
- Proactively drive cross-team alignment on architectural standards, tooling choices, and development workflows to ensure consistency and shared accountability for system health
- Bottleneck Identification and Mitigation: Systematically identify engineering bottlenecks, friction points, and points of organizational toil within the SDLC
- Implement targeted solutions—whether technical, process-based, or organizational—to mitigate these constraints and enhance overall engineering velocity
- Planning and Execution: Collaborate with engineering leadership to transform the strategic roadmap into actionable, prioritized plans, securing cross-functional buy-in and resources for successful execution
Our take
New streaming platforms and CTV provide novel data that shows great potential to improve advertising engagement. However, information such as how many times an ad was aired and watched, whether viewers were captivated, and how relevant it is to their viewing preferences can still be difficult to access.
iSpot.tv provides an ad measurement platform for TV, streaming platforms, and DSPs, allowing businesses to measure the success of their marketing campaigns in real time to fuel rapid optimization. The platform provides information such as brand recognition, purchase intent, likeability, and audience relevance, allowing businesses to benchmark this information against competitors to reduce wasted advertising spend and increase impressions. Over $500 billion of ad spend has been measured on the platform with almost 40 billion conversions attributed to iSpot.tv's service.
Whilst other marketing platforms are tackling similar obstacles to iSpot.tv, the company uniquely categorizes its data into insights that are easily understood and comparable relative to competitors. Furthermore, the company has ensured that its services are integrated with other 300 major streaming platforms and DSPs, futureproofing itself for the new wave of TV viewers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2022
$325m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2018
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $382.8m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: iSport offers two medical and dental plans for employees and their dependents as well as vision insurance. Employees may elect comprehensive individual coverage for medial, dental and vision for only $35/month
- Equity: Stock options are awarded upon hire. Additional grants may be rewarded during the compensation planning cycles
- Financial Wellbeing: iSport offers 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with a discretionary employer annual match. A tax advising benefit is offered via Carta. Short and long-term disability coverage and Life and AD&D insurance are also offered
- Health & Wellbeing: Virtual wellness classes, company wide wellness challenges, onsite health fair, as well as employee assistance program (EAP) are all offered as a way of supporting your health and wellbeing
- Tuition Reimbursement: Unlimited access to a comprehensive learning platform and tuition reimbursement to help advance your career at iSpot
Company HQ
West Lake Sammamish, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Sean Muller
(Founder & CEO)Experience as CTO and Vice President of Product Development for eNom, Inc. Was also COO of MediaNet Digital, Inc. from 2008 to 2011.
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