Favorited
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
2w ago
150000 –200000 USD / yearUSALeadautomationscalabilitysystem reliability
Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable and scalable infrastructure supporting real-time applications.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the infrastructure that powers favorited’s real-time platform. You will play a key role in building and maintaining systems that support high-traffic applications used by a rapidly growing global audience.
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving system reliability, and building automation that allows engineering teams to move quickly and confidently.
- Design, implement, and maintain highly reliable and scalable infrastructure supporting real-time applications.
- Build automation and tooling to improve system reliability, deployment processes, and operational efficiency.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems, ensuring learnings are incorporated into system improvements.
- Optimize infrastructure for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Manage and scale containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration technologies.
- Help define and enforce reliability standards, SLOs, and operational best practices across engineering teams.
- Continuously evaluate new infrastructure tools and practices to improve system resilience and developer productivity.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting real-time streaming, gaming, or large-scale consumer applications.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing systems.
- Experience optimizing infrastructure costs in high-growth environments.
- Practical experience integrating AI agents into DevOps workflows.
Conditions
- Compensation: $150k - $200k base salary + options.
- Unlimited PTO to prioritize work-life balance.
- 401(k) plan to invest in your future.
- Comprehensive health insurance to support your well-being.
- Paid company holidays for time to recharge.
- Competitive salary that values your expertise and contributions.
- Where You’ll Work: This is a full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica.
Other
- At favorited, we believe that digital communities should be more than just spaces to watch content. Our platform is a place to connect, engage, and play, and empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections.
- Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But, if you’re a self-starter eager to shape the future of social interaction with a team that holds itself to the highest standards, this is the place for you. We value open, yet respectful communication and real-time feedback to help each other grow quickly. If you’re passionate about gaming and have a knack for gamifying everyday life, you’ll thrive in our fast-moving, collaborative environment.
- 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Experience managing infrastructure for large-scale systems supporting millions of users.
- Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability systems (Dash0, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
- Strong scripting or programming experience in languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering practices including SLOs, SLIs, and incident management.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams.
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking and emerging protocols like HTTP/3.