Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Raptive is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Operation engineering team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building, and evolving the platform and infrastructure that powers our products. We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure and is comfortable shaping system architecture, improving reliability, and scaling Kubernetes-based environments.

In this role, you’ll lead initiatives from concept through production, ensuring systems are resilient, observable, and performant. You’ll partner closely with product and engineering to enable fast, reliable delivery, while raising engineering standards across CI/CD, infrastructure, and operations. Your work will directly impact the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of the Raptive platform as it continues to grow.

This is a senior-level position. You’ll be expected to ramp quickly, work independently, mentor others, and help shape the technical direction of the team through thought leadership and hands-on engineering.

Remote U.S. candidates are encouraged to apply. This position can be in-office in New York City or work-from-home.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the job:

• 8+ years of professional Site Reliability, platform engineering or DevOps related work

• Proven track record designing distributed, scalable architectures

• Hands‑on Kubernetes experience authoring Helm charts, operating clusters, tuning autoscaling, and debugging production issues

• Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (module authoring, CI validation, environment promotion)

• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and release processes (GitHub Actions, Flux/Argo, or similar)

• Familiarity with cloud cost management; able to spot and fix cost anti‑patterns in code or infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Grafana and PagerDuty, with familiarity in Prometheus metrics, distributed tracing, and RUM tooling.

• Experience developing secure software using Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Expertise in debugging and troubleshooting production workloads.

Qualities of the ideal candidate:

• Passionate & Curious: Positive, eager to learn, and ready to apply new technologies.

• Problem Solver: Skilled at breaking down complex requirements and navigating code.

• Accountable & Organized: Detail-oriented with a strong sense of platform ownership.

• AI Native: Embraces and utilizes tools like Claude, Codex, etc to be a force multiplier for velocity and reliability, while ensuring security best-practices.

• Proactive: Acts on opportunities, preferring proactive over reactive solutions.

• Adaptable: Quickly adjusts to changes in project, team, or organizational needs.

• Communicative: Clear, proactive communicator who mentors and shares knowledge.

• Empathetic: Appreciates teammates, offering support and constructive feedback.

• Collaborative: Collaborative: Works effectively across teams, building strong partnerships to achieve shared goals.

Raptive is a new kind of media company built for creators and home to one of the largest and most diverse audiences on the internet. Raptive combines its position as the world’s largest ad management platform with a comprehensive suite of monetization, audience and business solutions that enable creators to turn their passions and talents into thriving independent companies and enduring brands. We stand for the future of a diverse, open internet powered by the creativity and entrepreneurship of the independent creators and publishers it serves. To date, Raptive has paid over $2.5 billion to thousands of independent creators. Join us in creating a more equitable and inclusive future for media. Raptive was recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Places To Work for 2025-2026.

The base salary range for this position is $120,000-$180,000. The range provided is Raptive’s reasonable estimate of the annualized base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills and abilities. This role is eligible for additional incentive compensation that isn’t included in the posted range.

For more information, visit www.Raptive.com or follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram.

Raptive is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe we are most impactful when people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and identities come together with a common purpose. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Raptive is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to a member of our recruiting team.