Principal DevOps Engineer

VideoAmp is on a mission to create the best employee and workplace experience where people can bring their whole selves to work every day. We believe that accomplishing something great requires a special group of people who work hard, drive results, and have a blast while doing it - people who challenge the status quo and embody our values. People who say, “I’ll find a way,” instead of saying, “it can’t be done.”

Our engineers are passionate about creating quality, trusted solutions as part of a collaborative and dynamic organization. The successful candidate will be a detail-oriented self-starter with a passion for growth and a high standard for their work.

At VideoAmp, we believe in challenging advertising paradigms to maximize value for clients. We do this by enabling companies to execute business outcomes across their media investment instead of more traditional media metrics. VideoAmp is the software and data solutions company powering the convergence of linear TV and digital video advertising. Our solutions connect linear TV viewership with addressable data assets to benefit the marketing and media industries. This enables marketers and content owners to holistically plan, transact, and measure deduplicated audiences across digital video, OTT, connected, and linear TV advertising.

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Principal Engineer to join our DevOps team. You'll play a pivotal role in leading the design and implementation of developer and devops practices, infrastructure, automation and software delivery. This role requires fostering a culture of collaboration between all engineering teams including, but not limited to, developers, data engineers, security, and DevOps teams.

The ideal candidate is a driven and hungry individual, committed to delivering high-quality designs and implementation, with an eye on developer efficiency and experience. This role requires top notch technical skills across a variety of systems and technologies as well as sharp communication skills.

Responsibilities:

Innovation/Automation - Identify areas and drive efficiency by designing, writing and deploying applications and tools to improve engineering tasks and velocity.
Architecture and Design - Write architectural and design specs and coordinate across engineering to lead best practices and implementation.

Technical Leader - Provide high level technical guidance to other engineers and the ability to dive deep to solve platform or service issues.
Infrastructure - Automate and maintain reliable, scalable and cost-effective infrastructure in AWS using tools such as Terraform.
Code Management - Provide best-in-class technical expertise in designing and building application CICD pipelines. We use a number of tools including GithubActions, ArgoCD, Atlantis, & Bazel.

Required Experience:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
5+ years of experience working with AWS infrastructure
5+ years of experience working with Linux
4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes & Helm in a production environment
3+ years of programming experience for microservice applications (Golang preferred)
3+ years experience using Terraform
3+ years of experience working with CICD tools such as Argo,, GithubActions, CircleCI
2+ years of experience working with SQL
2+ years of experience working with service meshes (Istio preferred)
Solid understanding and experience of cloud based network architecture
Solid experience with Hashicorp Vault
Solid understanding and experience of logging and monitoring best practices
Experience working in fast paced start-up environments
Experience working in an on-call environment
Experience working on projects with ambiguous requirements

Bonus Experience:

Any of the following skills will make a candidate stand out:

Experience with Snowflake, Snowflake Container Services and/or Databricks
Experience with Temporal, Airflow, Gloo
Experience working with Bazel and/or Gazelle
Experience working with HTMX
Experience with other infra management tools like Crossplane, Pulumi

Minimum base salary of $154,000 - $200,000 + Equity + Benefits. The actual compensation offer will be determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, and experience.

We are on a collective mission to bring equity and transparency into media measurement, and that begins with an honest, inclusive culture. At VideoAmp, we empower our team to thrive through collaboration, mentorship, and innovation. If you're passionate about all things data and tech, and have extensive knowledge and curiosity around the digital media space, we’d love to hear from you.

Above all, if you're eager to influence and support the revolutionary goals of a dynamic, cross-functional team - join us and make an impact!

Principal DevOps Engineer - VideoAmp