Staff Platform Site Reliability Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Platform SRE building Index Exchange’s multi-tenant Index Cloud and infrastructure for programmatic advertising. Driving Kubernetes, distributed systems, and platform architecture at internet scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure across bare-metal and public cloud
  • Build infrastructure-as-code frameworks that push changes across thousands of servers
  • Write standard libraries, SDKs, and platform APIs used by engineering teams
  • Solve distributed systems problems involving real-time bidding, multi-datacenter consistency, fleet deployment, and large-scale load balancing
  • Drive technical direction through RFCs and design reviews
  • Set standards for shared platform domains and make decisions on tooling, security posture, and system design
  • Build golden paths, self-service tooling, and platform APIs
  • Own architectural decisions and deliver large-scale infrastructure projects
  • Mentor engineers and foster engineering excellence
  • Collaborate across Cloud Platform Operations, SRE, Network, Security, and Software Engineering teams
  • Build, scale, and maintain Index Cloud, a multi-tenant, globally distributed compute platform

Requirements

  • 8+ years in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps
  • Deep experience with Linux internals: kernel tuning, network stack, system observability, security
  • Strong Kubernetes expertise: cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, RBAC, and multi-cluster across bare-metal and cloud (EKS, GKE)
  • Infrastructure-as-code at scale using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps (ArgoCD or similar)
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or both for building libraries, SDKs, and platform APIs
  • Solid networking fundamentals (L2-L7), load balancing, DNS, and service discovery
  • Track record of driving technical strategy across teams
  • Experience building and shipping platform infrastructure at scale
  • Distributed storage systems experience, such as Ceph
  • Big data infrastructure experience with Hadoop, Spark, HBase, or Kafka
  • Observability stack design experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Mimir, Loki, or Tempo
  • Secrets management, certificate management, and access control at scale
  • Hybrid cloud architecture experience federating AWS/GCP with on-premises environments
  • Bare-metal infrastructure experience in globally distributed data centers

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
  • Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
  • Competitive retirement matching plans
  • Equity packages
  • Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
  • Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
  • Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
  • Employee assistance program
  • Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
  • One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
  • Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
  • Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
  • Diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AnsibleAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHadoopHBaseKafkaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSparkTerraformGo

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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