Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Moloco

About Moloco:

Moloco is a machine learning company empowering organizations of all sizes to grow and unlock the full value of their unique first-party data, elevating the traditional path to performance advertising. While the largest technology companies have proven the speed and scale of ad-targeting utilizing data— the same robust performance powered by machine learning has previously been unavailable beyond their platforms.

That’s where Moloco steps in. With Moloco’s powerful combination of cutting-edge machine learning technologies, we play a unique and visible role in shaping the digital economy, all while allowing companies to stay independent and scale.

An industry leader at the nexus of machine learning, performance marketing, and visionary product infrastructure, Moloco is advancing the advertising technology industry. We ranked in the top 10% of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies for 2023. Recognized as one of 46 leading Cloud Computing companies, receiving the Stratus Award for 2023. In 2023, we received Google’s Cloud DevOps Dreamers Award, a recognition given to companies that are implementing DevOps practices to drive organizational success and high performance. Lastly, Moloco is a 2024-certified Great Place to Work! Check us out on Glassdoor and be sure to get an inside look at working at Moloco on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging will allow us the greatest opportunity to carry out our mission -- to empower businesses of all sizes to grow through operational machine learning.

Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!

About the Role

Moloco is a machine learning company that operates at massive scale (we ingest 10 petabytes of training data per day), and our models are blazingly fast (return predictions in 10 milliseconds or less); and a profitable unicorn (we are valued at $2 billion and have been profitable for the last 17+ quarters).

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help us build a state-of-the-art ML model serving infrastructure for our mobile advertising platform. You will be part of an engineering team that manages the infrastructure that serves deep neural network machine learning (ML) models to clients, CI/CD infrastructure to deploy infrastructure updates in real time, and develops infrastructure tools and platforms that improve the productivity of engineering teams.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving infrastructure problems with software engineering skills, a desire to grow and learn new technologies, a love of working in collaborative teams, and a commitment to customer service.

What you’ll do

Play a role in engineering partner teams for company-wide infrastructure adoption and standard methodologies
Contribute to technical direction and decisions across the organization by conducting / leading research with other technical leaders in the organization
Traditional SRE/Operational support areas such as tooling and automation, monitoring, workflow management, maintaining and improving data pipelines, CI/CD, etc.
Actively participate in and contribute to code reviews and technical design documents to identify performance and reliability bottlenecks.
Partner with and support other engineering teams with operational guidance and expertise on various project initiatives.
Participate in capacity planning and scaling
Ensure that Moloco is delivered in a highly performant manner that can handle viral traffic spikes.
Collaborate with others in SRE and SWE to leverage tools, processes and techniques to improve service reliability.
Reduce business risk in areas such as infrastructure and configuration management, provisioning, capacity modeling and planning, and incident handling, mitigation, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
Identify common patterns in the challenges of operating services in production, and work with others in SRE and SWE to design and implement reusable solutions and/or other cross-functional work that reduces the complexity, difficulty, cost, and risk of operating the business.

What you’ll need to succeed

Hands-on experience working with GCP or other cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)
Practical, proven knowledge of a high-level language (e.g. Go, Python)
Experience working with infrastructure-related software (e.g. Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, etc.)
Experience developing infrastructure, configuration and deployment scripting and automation for large scale / high complexity services in a microservices environment
At least 5 years of experience in large-scale software development
Passionate about operational excellence and thrive in an environment where you are able to provide extremely high levels of customer support
Tenacious problem solver who takes ownership of issues from end-to-end to full resolution

For a behind-the-scenes look at working on the Moloco Engineering team, take a listen to our MolocoLife podcast episode featuring Dan Delorey (Senior Director of Engineering, DSP Infrastructure) and Rachel Wallen (Senior Manager of Recruiting).

Our Compensation And Benefits (for United States Residents Only)

In accordance with various state laws, the range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. We also offer a competitive benefits package.

Base Compensation Range:

$176,000—$214,000 USD

Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:

We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. Through a lens of inclusion, we offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives. For an overview of our global benefits, click here.

Moloco Values:

Lead with Humility: Everyone’s voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
Go Further Together: We’re one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won’t let each other fail.

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Equal Opportunity:

Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression, and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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