Sirius XM Radio

Responsibilities

Who We Are:

SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.

This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

SXM Media is the gateway for marketers to the largest digital audio advertising ecosystem in North America. As the combined advertising revenue organization of Sirius XM Holdings Inc., SXM Media spans across leading owned and operated audio platforms Pandora and SiriusXM; innovative ad tech solutions powered by AdsWizz; sonic creative consultancy Studio Resonate; and an extended content network featuring exclusive monetization agreements with Audiochuck, NBCUniversal, SoundCloud, and many more. Reaching more than 150 million listeners each month, SXM Media delivers audiences the tailored brand experiences they crave while putting creators first, making it easy for every marketer to produce, plan, buy and measure across its entire audio universe.

About AdsWizz

AdsWizz Inc. has created the end-to-end technology platform that is powering the digital audio advertising ecosystem. AdsWizz is the underlying monetization solution for well-known music platforms, podcasts and broadcasting groups worldwide. Through dynamic ad insertion, advanced programmatic platforms, and innovative audio formats, AdsWizz efficiently connects buyers and sellers for digital audio and podcast advertising. AdsWizz is owned by SiriusXM, and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with a Technology Development Hub in Bucharest, Romania

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability), you will play a critical role in shaping the future of AdsWizz and will be a crucial part of our DevOps team, playing a significant role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of our infrastructure and ensuring that our systems align with our strategic goals.

This Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability) is ultimately responsible for system reliability, developer productivity and reducing time to market by striving to reduce technical debt of the services your SRE team supports. We seek managers who are passionate about system reliability to influence and drive the strategic SRE mission. As a Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability) working on critical services your mission will be to ensure our services are fast, highly available, scalable, and able to withstand unprecedented increases in load. The Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability) will be at the heart of solving production problems. Your scope is from the kernel to the application. The position requires the flexibility to take a holistic approach to troubleshooting and the ability to delve deeply into technical details. 

What you’ll do:

• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of AdsWizz applications development by instilling engineering reliability into our development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches.
• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation and other non-functional systems requirements.
• Engage, influence, and evangelize SRE practices with development, operational and product groups to align technology service/solution delivery.
• Must be able to define and report "progress" on strategic initiates and project level tasks to all stakeholders including senior executives and use effective communication approaches with each constituency.

What you’ll need:

• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, managing large real-time systems.
• Project and process management
• Prior successful experience as a systems performance or site/systems reliability engineer.
• Mastery of Linux/Unix.
• Mastery in Bash, Python or Perl Programming.
• Mastery of fault tolerant approaches in a large scale distributed environment and high performance systems,
• 5+ years of SRE experience as well as deep AWS expertise 
• Experience with infra-automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation or similar
• Experience with monitoring technologies like Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus, Nagios or similar
• Experience with GIT: Gitlab/GitHub/etc
• A passion for performance excellence, robustness, and engineering mindset
• MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
• The successful candidate will possess an outstanding record of professional experience and will thrive in an environment that demands accountability. He/She must possess significant technology management and product development experience. He/She must also have strong planning, organizational, communication skills, and be a key driver to help the team understand the big picture perspective.
• Proven leader of technology solutions in a high volume transaction environment.
• Have excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Maintain excellent written and verbal communications with employees, and management chain, including status reports, project plans, presentations, etc.
• Ability to lead across functions and motivate a matrix staff

Our offer – what’s in it for you:

• Casual & friendly working environment with opportunities to impact the company with your ideas and involvement
• Technology diversity, interesting technical exposure in building the best ad-tech product on the market
• Corporate annual bonus system to celebrate personal and company wins
• Individual training budget to use as you like for skill improvement
• Sports bonus for activities such as gym, biking, and yoga
• Meal tickets card for enjoyable lunch breaks
• Gift cards for special events and holidays
• Days off for your birthday and special events, to recharge and enjoy your BIG moment
• Private medical subscription to keep you healthy
• Private Pension Fund (Pillar III) based on your years of tenure
• Free library subscription for the book lover in you
• Good hardware devices (new laptops / Macs, displays etc.)
• Parking lots at Sky Tower – 50% co-funded by the company
• Company offsites, CSR activities, and getaways to stay connected and keep the flame alive

Our goal at SiriusXM is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism, and cooperation. SiriusXM is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.