Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$190,800–$267,100 / yr
Posted
60 days ago
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Above market

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Ads

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the Ads Reliability team to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across the advertising ecosystem. This role involves building and operating highly available services for ad-serving, auction, targeting, measurement, and billing systems. Key responsibilities include designing infrastructure, creating automation tooling, and improving observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging. The engineer will lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive the adoption of SRE best practices like SLIs, SLOs, and capacity planning. Candidates must possess experience with large scale distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and backend languages like Go. The work focuses on scaling systems to support traffic growth and advertiser demand while ensuring the reliability of critical user journeys like campaign creation and ad delivery.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and automation to improve service reliability and engineering productivity.
  • Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging, and dashboards.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts for critical production systems.
  • Run root cause analysis and drive corrective actions following production incidents.
  • Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
  • Reduce operational toil through automation and the creation of self-service tooling.
  • Scale Ads systems to support traffic growth, advertiser demand, and evolving business requirements.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles operating large scale distributed systems.
  • Strong experience supporting high traffic, user facing production environments.
  • Strong software engineering skills in general-purpose backend languages like Go.
  • Good understanding of modern distributed systems, scale engineering, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
  • Experience with observability platforms, monitoring systems, alerting, and incident response.
  • Experience driving automation and operational improvements.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to lead and influence operational excellence.

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