Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Position: Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Live Ramp 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, Live Ramp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. Live Ramp 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 Live Ramp 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 Live Ramp'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 Live Ramp 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 Fin Ops 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 Live Ramp'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 No

SQL databases (Single Store, 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 Fin Ops 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…