Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

LiveRamp is looking for a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer who will set the technical direction for reliability engineering across LiveRamp's global infrastructure. This is a senior individual contributor role with organization-wide scope—you will define and own the SRE strategy, influence product and platform architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across multiple teams and regions.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the SRE strategy across the organization—SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and operational excellence frameworks
• Oversee automation of critical areas to mitigate risk and align with engineering priorities
• Develop and own some of the most complex software infrastructure spanning multiple products and services
• Drive engineering-wide system design, automation, and performance optimization standards
• Lead distributed systems architecture reviews and kickoffs across engineering teams
• Drive high-quality API and interface designs across multiple teams
• Drive overall architecture improvements across multiple products and services
• Shape product and service design vision inside engineering, anticipating the unexpressed needs of internal teams
• Understand global industry and market trends and apply them to deliver superior infrastructure solutions
• Maintain a complete view of LiveRamp products and how SRE OKRs support the product roadmap
• Contribute technical due diligence to M&A evaluations of potential acquisitions and partnerships
• Serve as the escalation point of last resort for high-impact production incidents globally, leading postmortems with org-wide action items
• Establish and enforce production readiness standards across engineering
• Champion FinOps strategy across Kubernetes, cloud resources, and database infrastructure
• Mentor Staff Engineers and provide technical feedback and guidance
• Hold peers accountable for on-time, quality delivery
• Represent LiveRamp's best interests in the broader technology ecosystem

Requirements

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 10+ years in SRE, production engineering, or platform engineering; 3+ years at senior or staff level
• Expert in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) at scale across multi-environment, multi-team setups
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, globally distributed systems
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: internals, autoscaling, multi-tenant workload management, and rightsizing
• Advanced experience with real-time and NoSQL databases (SingleStore, ScyllaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go; able to build production-grade internal tooling adopted across teams
• Expertise in observability engineering—SLOs, SLI pipelines, and high-signal alerting systems
• Deep FinOps expertise: cost attribution, reserved capacity strategy, and cloud cost governance at scale
• Experience maturing CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, CircleCI, or equivalent) for multiple engineering teams
• Strong cloud security background: IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 (GCP and/or AWS)
• Peer-recognized expert in a field relevant to LiveRamp's technology ecosystem
• Exceptional communicator across both technical and executive audiences
• Proven ability to lead without authority and influence across engineering organizations

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating multi-region active-active architectures
• Contributions to open source observability or infrastructure tooling
• Experience with chaos engineering frameworks (Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, or equivalent)
• Prior experience in a staff-plus IC role or as a technical lead for a global SRE organization
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI-assisted development workflows, including tools such as Claude Code; experience applying agentic software development patterns to automate infrastructure tasks, incident response, or operational toil

Pay

The approximate annual base compensation range is $181,000 to $263,000. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, and voluntary benefits
• 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
• In-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues