Staff SRE — Hybrid NYC, Drive Reliability & AI Ops

Nexxen; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexxen seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to be a principal reliability partner across our infrastructure and platform teams in New York City. The role blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership in a hybrid cloud/on‑prem environment.

You will define SLOs, drive incident postmortems, mentor SREs, and champion automation and AI-powered observability to reduce toil and improve reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development and site reliability or production engineering experience.
• Experience leading reliability initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong ability to influence without authority through data and collaboration.
• Hands-on with observability tooling and SRE best practices.

Responsibilities

• Influence application and infrastructure teams on reliability changes that matter most.
• Mentor and develop SREs at all levels and define practice standards.
• Drive Nexxen's AI strategy within SRE to strengthen observability.
• Drive latency and throughput improvements across code and infra.
• Lead architectural reliability reviews and map failure domains.
• Design reliability across hybrid on-prem and AWS infrastructure.
• Drive reliability for core data infrastructure with high throughput systems.
• Partner on infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.
• Define and maintain SLIs and SLOs with observability signals.
• Lead incident postmortems and proactive failure testing.

Skills

SRE leadership

Influence without authority

Mentorship

Observability tools

Code optimization

Chaos engineering

Hybrid cloud

Linux networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Nexxen seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to be a principal reliability partner across our infrastructure and platform teams in New York City. The role blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership in a hybrid cloud/on‑prem environment.

You will define SLOs, drive incident postmortems, mentor SREs, and champion automation and AI-powered observability to reduce toil and improve reliability at scale.