Front-End & AdTech Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Haymarket; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid time off

Health plans

401(k) matching

Life insurance

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Training opportunities

Work from Anywhere (3 weeks)

Job summary

Haymarket Media, Inc. is seeking a Front-End & AdTech Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Engineering team in New York, NY. The role focuses on reliability of Vue 3 apps, headless WordPress, and AdStack, balancing monetization with Core Web Vitals.

You will own edge delivery, CI/CD pipelines, Cloudflare, GCP, and OpenTelemetry, collaborating with product and dev teams to reduce latency and outages.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or performance-focused engineering.
• Strong Vue 3 (Composition API) experience and build tooling (Vite).
• Deep WordPress architecture knowledge and WP REST API/GraphQL.
• Hands-on in Cloudflare, Workers, and GCP (Cloud Run, GKE).
• Terraform, Prebid.js, and GAM familiarity; OpenTelemetry experience is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to architect and maintain Cloudflare CDN capabilities.
• Build and deploy serverless edge solutions with Cloudflare Workers.
• Own zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines for Vue 3 apps and WordPress.
• Manage GCP infrastructure for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Optimize ad monetization via Prebid.js while minimizing latency.
• Implement OpenTelemetry for end-to-end tracing and performance metrics.
• Lead blameless post-mortems for performance degradations and outages.

Skills

Vue 3

Vite

WordPress REST API/GraphQL

Cloudflare

GCP

Terraform

Prebid.js

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI)

Edge CDN/Performance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Cloudflare (Workers)

WordPress

GCP (Cloud Run, GKE)

Terraform

Prebid.js

GAM

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Vite

Job description

Front-End & AdTech Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Haymarket Media, Inc. is seeking a Front-End & AdTech Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Engineering team. This position is located in our New York, NY office; three (3) days in office depending on business needs.

Job Overview:

A Haymarket Front-End & AdTech Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a specialized engineer who bridges the gap between high-performance client-side code and modern cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will own the reliability and performance of our user-facing Vue 3 applications, headless WordPress architectures, and complex AdStack, balancing programmatic monetization via Prebid.js against Core Web Vitals. In this hands-on role you will ensure our web ecosystem is fast, resilient, and optimized at the edge.

Responsibilities:

Lead development team initiatives to:

• Architect and maintain Cloudflare CDN capabilities (Cache Rules, WAF, Page Rules) to maximize cache-hit ratios.
• Build and deploy serverless solutions using Cloudflare Workers for edge routing and asset optimization.
• Own zero-downtime CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for Vue 3 applications and WordPress.
• Manage GCP infrastructure (Cloud Run, GKE) to ensure scalability and cost-efficiency.
• Optimize client-side monetization architecture (Prebid.js) to minimize bundle size and auction latency.
• Implement OpenTelemetry (OTel) for end-to-end tracing and monitoring of core performance metrics (LCP, INP, CLS).
• Lead blameless post-mortems for performance degradations and outage incidents.

Skills and Requirements:

Qualifications include:

• Minimum of 3+ years, but ideally 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Performance-focused Engineering.
• Proficiency in Vue 3 (Composition API) and build tools like Vite.
• Deep understanding of WordPress architecture and the WP REST API/GraphQL.
• Hands-on experience managing Cloudflare (including Workers for senior roles).
• Comfort with GCP (Cloud Run, Storage, GKE) and Terraform.
• Practical experience with Prebid.js and Google Ad Manager (GAM).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with hybrid bidding strategies or Prebid Server migration.
• Advanced Linux system administration.
• Experience mentoring teams on performance culture.

Special Instructions:

• A cover letter and code samples are required

What We Offer:

• A competitive compensation package
• The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $160,000. Compensation will be commensurate with experience, skill level, functional and/or industry knowledge, education level, certifications, as well as other qualifications.
• Paid annual vacation, holiday and sick time off
• Comprehensive health plans including medical, dental and vision
• Competitive 401(k) investment options and generous company matching program
• Life insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Employee referral awards
• Tuition reimbursement
• Training opportunities through industry-recognized programs
• A creative and passionate workplace and a fun, collaborative team environment
• Three Week "Work from Anywhere" benefit, to ensure work life balance

About Haymarket:

Haymarket has its heart and soul in publishing and media. Since the company was founded half a century ago, Haymarket has always prided itself on being a highly creative business, with an unrelenting focus on the quality of the products and the people. The philosophy has always been quite simple: only by having the highest quality individuals can you produce the highest quality products, combining the best in content, design, production and customer services. Globalization is opening up the world further and provides many opportunities for growth. Haymarket has offices around the world and many of the titles are now truly global brands. Haymarket serves a broad spread of business markets, from marketing to medicine to technology along with exhibitions and live events. Predicting the shape of the business in 3, 5, or 10 years is almost impossible; and the unpredictability is part of the appeal. Haymarket aims to be the perfect company to work with or for – we have the processes and attitude that ensure quality and consistency, and an entrepreneurial spirit that makes every day rewarding. As a Certified B Corporation, we’re proud to be part of a community of companies working together for change, and taking part in collective action to advocate for a shared goal of a global economy that benefits people and the planet.

An equal opportunity employer, Haymarket Media does not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other protected category recognized by state, federal, or local laws.