20 days ago
Base Salary
$181k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own organization-wide SRE strategy covering SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and operational excellence.
- Automate critical infrastructure areas, develop complex software infrastructure, and establish standards for system design, performance, APIs, and architecture.
- Lead distributed-systems architecture reviews and influence product and platform design across multiple teams and regions.
- Serve as the final escalation point for high-impact global production incidents and lead postmortems with organization-wide action items.
- Establish production-readiness standards and champion FinOps strategy across Kubernetes, cloud resources, and databases.
- Mentor Staff Engineers, provide technical guidance, influence without authority, and represent LiveRamp in the broader technology ecosystem.
- Contribute technical due diligence to merger and acquisition evaluations and potential partnerships.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or platform engineering, including 3+ years at senior or staff level.
- Expertise in Terraform-based infrastructure as code across multi-environment and multi-team deployments.
- Experience designing and operating highly available, globally distributed systems, with deep Kubernetes expertise.
- Advanced experience with real-time and NoSQL databases such as SingleStore, ScyllaDB, Cassandra, and DynamoDB.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go and experience building production-grade internal tooling adopted across teams.
- Expertise in observability engineering, including SLOs, SLI pipelines, and high-signal alerting.
- Deep FinOps experience involving cost attribution, reserved capacity strategy, and cloud cost governance.
- Experience maturing CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins or CircleCI for multiple engineering teams.
- Strong cloud security background covering IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GCP, and/or AWS.
- Peer-recognized expertise relevant to LiveRamp’s technology ecosystem and exceptional communication across technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include multi-region active-active architecture experience, open-source observability or infrastructure contributions, chaos engineering experience, prior staff-plus or global SRE technical leadership, and familiarity with LLMs, Claude Code, and agentic infrastructure-development workflows.
Benefits
- Approximate annual base compensation is $181,000 to $263,000; total compensation and benefits depend on experience, skills, geography, and internal equity.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache CassandraAWSCircleCIGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesPythonSingleStoreTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About LiveRamp
LiveRamp builds a data collaboration and identity resolution platform used by brands, publishers, and agencies to connect and activate customer data across channels with privacy controls. It sells enterprise software and services—including data clean rooms, onboarding, and a data marketplace—typically via subscriptions and usage-based fees. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.