Staff Engineer - Cloud DevOps/ SRE

About the role

We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, enable delivery of product features, and design scalable solutions to complex operational challenges across a portfolio of globally scaled products.

Key products include AutoStage, a global API serving the automotive industry with enhanced radio, audio, and video content, and Music Metadata, which provides music-related data to enrich search and listening experiences.

Built on a modern microservices architecture deployed on Google Cloud Platform, the infrastructure uses Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and comprehensive observability tooling. Systems handle over 1 billion daily requests. You will collaborate closely with development teams across products in an Agile environment to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.

What you’ll get to do

• Manage multi-region GCP infrastructure at scale (1B+ requests/day)
• Diagnose high- and low-level performance issues in a highly distributed environment
• Manage and develop GKE Kubernetes clusters
• Migrate projects hosted on-premises or on different solutions to the stack
• Use and improve existing monitoring systems
• Identify time-consuming tasks and automate them
• Maintain standards of security, reliability, performance, and quality
• Research best practices and technologies and implement them in day-to-day work
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation after becoming familiar with the products

Who we are looking for

Must have:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• 3+ years of experience with Linux and networking in production environments
• 2+ years of experience running Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience managing infrastructure with a major cloud provider; GCP preferred
• Experience with time-series-based monitoring systems, such as Prometheus or Datadog
• Experience coding in Terraform
• Experience managing Kubernetes configurations with Helm
• Experience writing automation in Python or a similar scripting language

Nice to have:

• Experience with CI/CD platforms, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Experience with database operations, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or BigQuery
• Experience with container registries and image security scanning
• Experience with Terragrunt
• Experience with incident management and SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs and blameless post-mortems
• Experience with image-building tools, including Packer or Cloud Build

What will make you successful

• Ability to propose, design, and develop scalable solutions
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong documentation practices

Rewards

• Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits supporting work-life balance, health, financial security, and future savings and investment
• Flexible paid time off, holidays, sick time, health and wellness initiatives, and a charitable match program
• Location-dependent perks, such as employee discounts, transportation reimbursements, subsidized cafes, and fitness facilities
• Flexible hybrid work environment combining in-office collaboration with remote work