SRE Architect

Position Summary

Architect of SRE & Enablement

Samsung Ads focuses on enabling brands to connect with Samsung audiences across all devices. As an international company, Architects at Samsung work on big complex projects with stakeholders and teams located around the globe.

Our purpose is to deliver unparalleled results for our customers. Samsung Ads uniquely transforms the advertising landscape by using comprehensive data to build the world’s most intelligent connected audience platform. We deliver on Samsung Electronics’ 51-year commitment to excellence through smart, easy, effective advertising solutions to make advanced video advertising work.

What you will do:

As an Architect of SRE & Enablement, you’ll be partnering with software development technical leaders, a global team of embedded SREs, and platform leadership in designing the future of reliability & developer productivity. This role is hands-on and requires an experienced individual who both understands the big picture, but also appreciates the nuances and detail that go into building an enterprise-grade self-serve platform with a commitment to operational excellence.

The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge of cloud architecture, designing for reliability, SRE best practices as well as developer productivity & platform experience. You would also display your strong background in observability, incident process, cost savings and operational / engineering excellence. Challenges of globally distributed high volume/low latency services, deciding what and when state should be shared, and designing for failure scenarios should drive you.

You will work with some incredibly talented and passionate developers with a solid technical background to bring products and services to a market with unique technical challenges.

Role and Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

● Design and guide teams in adoption of a platform interface focused on increasing developer velocity

● Partner closely with fellow architects to determine functional and non-functional requirements, reliability strategies, and developer productivity

● Hands on coding of PoCs, as well as production support during significant incidents

● Drive efficiencies in cloud spend alongside the Engineering Platform teams

● Work closely with Enterprise Platform teams to create high-level implementation specs with a focus on production integration and feasibility

● Focus on operational and engineering efficiency, looking for ways to consolidate tool usage, simplify developer journeys, reduce time to production and incident remediation

● Deliver a strategy around building templates and golden paths for the core developer personas

● Measurably improve the cognitive load on developers by automating and shifting left fundamental necessities like security, observability, HA design and more

Skills and Qualifications

Required Skills And Experience

● Demonstrable expertise in AWS and scaling Kubernetes native applications (CKA, CKAD, CKS are nice to have)

● 10+ years of experience in either an SRE role or a role with similar responsibilities

● Excellent ability to articulate and document a vision, gain consensus and align engineers

● Strong experience in operational excellence, SLIs, cost savings insights and visualizations

● Experience with developer platform tools and developer enablement practices ● Relevant software engineering experience with at least one language (Go, Ruby, Python, Erlang or Java)

● Understanding of microservices, distributed systems and client-server architectures

● You are eager to challenge the status quo

● Proactive mindset, addressing potential issues before they occur.

● Track record of making improvements and leading solutions that remove technical pain points and facilitate growth.

● Excellent communication skills in English is essential

If you're interested in joining a growing team building an outstanding, world-class advertising organization with a relentless focus on design and customer experience, you've come to the right place

CALIFORNIA ONLY

Compensation for this role is expected to be between $220,000 and $260,000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.

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