About the Team

Sovrn offers a suite of products to allow independent creators to stay independent by making an income while serving their audience. Of these products, our Advertising Exchange is the oldest, largest, and probably the most complex. It operates at massive scale, in open market conditions, and with sophisticated counterparties.

The Exchange team has recently moved its entire architecture from hybrid cloud/bare metal to an entirely cloud-native environment. The migration was a success, with all major infrastructure now running in AWS. Our next challenges are to scale, harden, and make our product more performant and cost-efficient. We are also considering multi-cloud deployments.

The team is seeking an experienced cloud engineer to help us with the next phases of this exciting project.

About the Job

As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will have a pivotal role in building and maintaining our cloud systems, porting our systems to new regions and cloud environments, and continually optimizing the operations of those systems.

Some of our key tenets are low latency, high performance, sane architecture, observable systems, operational maturity, and a blameless culture of learning and improvement.

Cloud engineering includes deployment pipelines, software configuration management, infrastructure configuration management, containerization frameworks, monitoring, and performance engineering. You will bring experience with Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps transformation, implementation, and sustaining activities.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Helping manage a large (200B+ requests daily, petabyte-scale) application in the cloud
  • Evolving and improving our low-latency, high-performance architecture
  • Improving observability and cost-efficiency
  • Driving the maturity of our load balancing strategy Advocating for best practices for container management and tools
  • Guiding the evolution of cloud native practices, guidelines, patterns, and standards
  • Providing technical and architectural/vision alignment guidance and mentorship to other team members

About You

You are a self-starter and desire to work without micromanagement. You enjoy being part of a collaborative team but are also independently responsible. You are energized by technical challenges and solving problems with your team to make better software. You are security-minded and above all are excited about technology with an endless curiosity to learn.

The successful candidate will have:

  • Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Ability to lead problem definition, solution designs, and define implementation work plans
  • Experience with containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Fargate)
  • Experience with automation configuration tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, etc.)
  • Experience deploying cloud services, monitoring, alerting, and handling critical issues
  • Familiarity and experience with L2/L3 networking, DNS, and HAProxy
  • Proficiency in BASH, Python, or other scripting languages
  • A creative yet analytical mindset with problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment
  • Technical curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
  • Ability to lead junior and experienced engineers to a common technical goal

Bonus Points:

  • Experience in ad tech, ad exchanges, SSPs, or related domains
  • Understanding of real-time bidding (RTB) protocols, ad serving technologies, and programmatic advertising
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Application Developer (CKA, CKAD)
  • Cloud Certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Java experience
  • Experience with large scale, latency-sensitive systems
  • Full software development lifecycle experience
  • Experience with Cloud-based security protocols

This position reports to: Manager, Advertising Exchange Engineering

Location: Hybrid in our Boulder, Colorado office #LI-Hybrid

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable; and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of accountability impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We expect you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we're looking for.

Sovrn Core Values: Candid, Customer Empathy, Learning, Scrappy, Second Order Thinking

Compensation and Benefits

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the approximate compensation range for this role in Boulder, Colorado is a base of $140,000 to $160,000, and eligibility for bonus compensation. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate's relevant work experience, skills and certifications.

Sovrn offers a full slate of benefits from competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental and vision coverage, short and long term disability, life insurance,11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, and a paid parental leave program.

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Sovrn is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations will be made to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

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