Yopeso Romania SRL seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to play a pivotal role as an Ads Reliability Engineer (SRE). Your mission is to ensure the foundational stability, reliability, resilience, and scalability of the critical systems powering the Netflix Ad Suite. You will guide reliability efforts, proactively build resilient systems, respond to issues, and evolve culture and technology to prevent failures and unlock engineering velocity.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure to support the Netflix Ads Suite.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate observability, reliability, and security considerations into the entire software development lifecycle.
- Coordinate capacity planning as we scale up Dynamic Ad Insertion for global-scale Netflix Live streaming.
- Develop and implement automation tools for monitoring, deployment, and incident response to ensure efficient and reliable operations.
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the 24/7 health of the Netflix Ad Suite and contribute to incident response, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Implement and maintain a robust incident response framework, including blame-aware incident reviews to learn from operational surprises.
- Proactively identify sources of instability in distributed systems and analyze how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective.
- Champion and embed a culture of reliability across the Ads organization by creating documentation, developing best-practice guides, and building tooling.
- Travel expectation of 10-15%.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Production Engineer, or similar role supporting business-critical, high-traffic services.
- Proficient in one or more languages like Python, Go, or Java and believe in automating solutions over manual effort.
- Hands-on experience with cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
- Understand large-scale distributed systems, their common failure modes and edge cases.
- Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to build relationships with and educate engineering partners.
- Ability to calmly navigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement effective, lasting solutions.
- Possess a growth mindset, relentlessly curious, committed to continuous improvement, and passionate about scaling your expertise.
Nice to Have
- Direct experience with Ad tech platforms, real-time bidding (RTB), DSPs, SSPs.
- Direct experience with Dynamic Ad Insertion for Live Events.
- Direct experience with systems that experience high-scale load spikes.
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines or analytics platforms.
- A track record of contributing to open-source projects in the reliability space.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, Go, Java
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Ads Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $388,000.00 - $558,000.00 + equity via the Stock Option Program.
- Health Plans
- Mental Health support
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
- Stock Option Program
- Disability Programs
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Family-forming benefits
- Life and Serious Injury Benefits
- Paid leave of absence programs
- Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off
- Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
