Senior Site Reliability Engineer
OpenX, a leading provider of digital and mobile advertising technology, seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the performance and uptime of various OpenX systems and services. OpenX serves hundreds of thousands of requests per second from thousands of servers across a worldwide datacenter footprint. Experience at large scale is desirable, though we are willing to train people with the right skills and attitude.
You will be responsible for maintaining and improving service uptime and scaling our systems for continued rapid growth. Additionally, this role will handle planned or unplanned maintenance events and execute a consistent software release process. The ideal candidate has experience with large-scale management of thousands of physical servers. Excellent communication skills are required in order to successfully interact with the rest of OpenX Engineering.
Developing and supporting our infrastructure presents many interesting technical challenges. We especially desire candidates with a passion for open-source software and an interest in the latest system architecture trends, for example: Docker, Mesos, or Kubernetes.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support high-performance, highly-available infrastructure
- Improve the efficiency and flexibility of our datacenters
- Build and maintain models for growth and capacity planning
- Tune large-scale clusters for optimal performance and efficiency
- Develop technologies for low latency access to very large data resources
- Participate in a 24-hour on-call rotation
- Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of all server infrastructure
- Work closely with engineering, project management, operational, and engineering peers to develop innovative technical tools and solutions.
- Identify tactical issues and react to emerging areas of concern.
- Adhere to the DevOps philosophy by evangelizing communication, collaboration, and integration with software development teams.
- Think long-term and be unsatisfied with band-aids.
- Identify unnecessary complexity and remove it.
Required Qualifications
- At least three years experience in a SRE/SysAdmin, DevOps, software development, or equivalent role
- Capability to program in at least one language (other than Bash), ideally Python, Ruby or Perl
- Solid knowledge of the UNIX command-line and architecture
- Strong knowledge of core protocols and tech such as: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancers, distributed file systems, key-value and relational databases.
- Extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible is a big plus
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced and hectic work environment
- Capable of technical deep-dives into code, networking, systems, and storage with very bright, experienced engineers
- Demonstrated experience in network and large scale UNIX system troubleshooting and maintenance practices
- Must be willing to occasionally travel to domestic and international data center or office locations.
- Humility and Integrity
Desired Characteristics
- Understanding of programming languages such as Erlang, C/C++, Java, or others are okay
- Self-starter with the ability to independently identify and act on areas of improvement
- Knowledge and interest in the latest system architecture trends
- Ability to rapidly learn and understand new systems
- Ability to communicate effectively and write accurate, clear documentation
Company at a Glance
OpenX exists to help publishers grow their businesses by monetizing great content. We do this by creating highly efficient, high quality programmatic advertising marketplaces that deliver optimal value to all buyers and sellers of digital advertising.
Today, OpenX operates one of the largest, most efficient and highest quality programmatic markets in the world. Our unified system also encompasses a complete supply side platform that optimizes revenue across network and real-time bidding (RTB) demand, and a comprehensive ad server.
At OpenX we have built a team that is uniquely experienced in designing and operating high-scale programmatic ad marketplaces. We are constantly looking for thoughtful, creative executors who are as fascinated as we are about finding new ways to apply a blend of market design, technical innovation, operational excellence, and empathetic partner service to the frontiers of digital advertising.
OpenX Values
We are one
Our customers define us
OpenX is mine
We are an open book
We evolve fast