Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Overview

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 (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.

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.

Benefits

Salary & Benefits
Compensation: $150k - $200k base salary + options.
Benefits Include: 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.