Senior Staff SRE Architect (Global)

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

Job summary

LiveRamp is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to set the technical direction for reliability across its global infrastructure. This senior IC will define the SRE strategy, influence architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across teams and regions.

You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and shape product design vision to anticipate internal needs. A deep Kubernetes, cloud, and FinOps background is essential for this role in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS, SE, or equivalent.
• 10+ years in SRE, production engineering, or platform engineering; 3+ years at senior or staff level.
• Terraform at scale across multi-environment, multi-team setups.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, globally distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: internals, autoscaling, multi-tenant workload management.
• Advanced experience with real-time and NoSQL databases (SingleStore, ScyllaDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Go; build production-grade internal tooling.
• 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.

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 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.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Go

CI/CD

Observability

FinOps

Cloud security

SRE

Jenkins

CircleCI

Education

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

Tools

Jenkins

CircleCI

GCP

AWS

Job description

LiveRamp is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to set the technical direction for reliability across its global infrastructure. This senior IC will define the SRE strategy, influence architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across teams and regions.

You will lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and shape product design vision to anticipate internal needs. A deep Kubernetes, cloud, and FinOps background is essential for this role in San Francisco.