Senior System Engineer

Key Skills

Bash scripting, Big Data Technology, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Design, Infrastructure-as-code-IaC, Leadership Skill, Linux Operating system, Management, Planning and organization, Python Programming

Job Description

Who we are

DoubleVerify is a big data analytics company, gone public in April 2021 (NYSE: DV).

We track and analyze tens of billions of ads every day for the biggest brands in the world like Nike, AT&T, Disney, Vodafone, and most of the Fortune 500 companies, if you’ve seen an ad online via Web, Mobile, or CTV device then there are big chances that it was measured by us.

We operate at a massive scale, we handle over 100B events per day and over 1M RPS at peak, we process events in real-time at low latencies (ms) to help our clients make decisions before, during and after the ad is served. We verify that all ads are fraud free, appear next to appropriate content, appear to people in the right geography and measure the viewability and user’s engagement throughout the ad’s lifecycle.

We are global, we have R&D centers in Tel Aviv, New York, Finland, Berlin, Belgium and San Diego, we work in a fast-paced environment and have a lot of challenges to solve. If you like to work in a huge scale environment and want to help us build products that have huge impact on the industry, and the web - then your place is with us

What will you do

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that DoubleVerify's services—both internally critical and externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customers' needs, and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SREs will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems' capacity and performance.

As a Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE), you will provide scalable, reliable, durable, and secure global ad-tech services for external DoubleVerify customers and internal users. We help build highly reliable ad-tech services using a customer-first approach while innovating technically. You will understand our customer's needs and how we can meet them.

We focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage complex challenges of scale which are unique to DoubleVerify, while using your expertise in coding, architecting, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big, and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to other team members on managing the availability and performance of mission-critical services, and on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
• Lead designs of major infrastructure components, systems, and features to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of DoubleVerify's services.
• Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities for DoubleVerify.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards, and cultivate innovation and collaboration across multiple teams.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Who you are

• Expertise of Linux systems internals and administration.
• Scripting automation in one or more of the following languages: Bash, Python, PowerShell.
• Architecting, developing, and troubleshooting high availability systems.
• Designing, building, and maintaining production services.
• CI/CD pipelines and/or GitOps, and automating routine tasks.
• Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure management.
• LDAP and identity services, experience with Active Directory preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership, with a systematic problem-solving approach.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using open source solutions for distributed systems such as storage and networking.
• Designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting grid and cluster systems.
• Thorough understanding of hypervisor principles.