Sr Principal Site Reliability Engineer

SRE Lead, Content Distribution Engineering

This role will report to the Senior Vice President of Media Engineering, with a scope spanning several departments and hundreds of developers and operators. You will drive high-availability with an ultimate goal of 99.999% incident-free uptime across the entire platform. You will ensure fast response, proactive prevention, effective monitoring, and sound architectural design.

• Accountable for platform stability and uptime, from processing platform and content supply chain through CDN delivery and playback.
• Develop solid understanding of all critical data flows and ensure proper instrumentation and alerting practices.
• Drive redundancy and resiliency strategy across thousands of servers, network links, in both datacenter and cloud environments.
• Responsible for Media Engineering's Incident Response process and ensuring follow-ups and proactive actions to avoid service incidents.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Operations, Product, and Development teams to ensure best-practices, conducting audits and reviews across each domain.
• Drive automation strategy for more rapid safe releases, tighter content SLAs, and a more efficient organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of engineering leadership experience, including managing and influencing teams directly and indirectly
• Bachelors or higher degree in Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working across complex globally connected teams with a variety of stakeholders
• Experience with large-scale globally distributed platforms including content preparation, distribution, playback, operations, and infrastructure
• Possess a vision for exceptional escalation management and engineering excellence.
• Ability to develop and implement and socialize strategies and tactics to drive improvement in stability, system performance, team capability, and operational efficiency.
• Knowledge of how to use data to understand and improve business performance.
• Passion for developing teams, with a focus on continuous learning.
• Track record of developing strong cross-functional and cross-regional relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience with major Content Delivery Network integrations

• Experience in media streaming technologies, especially media processing workflows and tooling, media players and devices, and content delivery strategies.
• Experience with both high-scale back-end services (cloud and datacenter) along with client development on a variety of devices (mobile, web, living room devices).
• Experience with Media Operations and/or Infrastructure management

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $250,500 - $335,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.