Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

LiveRamp; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Comprehensive benefits package

401K matching plan

Job summary

LiveRamp is looking for a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in San Francisco, California, who will set the technical direction for reliability engineering across LiveRamp's global infrastructure. This role includes defining and owning the SRE strategy while mentoring staff engineers and overseeing critical automation projects.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in SRE or platform engineering, exceptional communication skills, and expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes. A comprehensive benefits package and an inclusive work environment are also part of the offer.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE, production engineering, or platform engineering; 3+ years at senior or staff level.
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, globally distributed systems.
• Exceptional communicator across both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the SRE strategy across the organization.
• Oversee automation of critical areas to mitigate risk.
• Serve as the escalation point of last resort for high-impact production incidents globally.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Kubernetes

Python

Observability engineering

Cloud security

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

## Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerApplylocations: San Franciscotime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: JR012202**LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.****Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.**The Global SRE team is responsible for owning and supporting deployments of global products, and providing first line operational support. We are 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.**You Will:*** 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**About you:*** 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 toilThe 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:* People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.* Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.* Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.* Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.* Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead. Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)## More about us:## *LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click* *here* *to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.*LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.We use automated decision systems (ADS) as part of our recruitment and hiring process. If you require an accommodation or believe that the use of an ADS may create a barrier to your application or participation in the hiring process due to a disability or other protected characteristic, please let us know. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and ensuring an equitable hiring experience for all candidates.**California residents**: Please see our California Personnel Privacy Policy for more information regarding how we collect, use, and disclose the personal information you provide during the job application process.**To all recruitment agencies**: LiveRamp does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, LiveRamp employees or any other company location. LiveRamp is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.