Senior DevOps Engineer, Synthesia
ÂŁ100-130k
+ Bonuses and stock options. €100,000 - €115,000 for other locations
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AI video creation platform
Job no longer available
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
ÂŁ100-130k
+ Bonuses and stock options. €100,000 - €115,000 for other locations
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- Very practiced in remote and async work. We’re a distributed Product Engineering group
- Bombproof collaboration skills, both interpersonal and through git-based collaboration
- Happy being on-call (1 in 5 rota, 1 week shift, with an escalation path and fallback always available)
- Have experience working through the “scale up” period of a SAAS company
- Be a nice person to work with. We lead through consensus
- Be very practiced in infrastructure as code (we use Terraform + Terragrunt currently)
- Be very practiced with AWS and happy working with AWS ECS, though we are looking to move in stages across to EKS
- Be confident in leading projects which have significant impact cross multiple teams across the organisation
- Finding pragmatic scaling solutions for a product that grows significantly every month which are not just “add more AWS”
Desirable
- Deep Datadog skills (including pairing with Engineering teams to help them get the most out of it)
- MongoDB knowledge (we run in Atlas, we make use of Search)
- NodeJS or Python code in collaboration with Engineering Teams
- Supporting, expanding, and optimizing Continuous Delivery tooling, specifically GitHub Actions
- Experience in moving to, and working with, Kubernetes (EKS in AWS specifically)
- Mongo Vector Search
- Workflow Management tooling in a SAAS environment (Temporal, AirFlow, Argo Workflow)
- Supporting ML workloads at scale
- Video streaming and hosting
- Building relationships with vendors and their management
- Coordinating and managing incidents across a business
What the job involves
- You will be working on a mix of what might be referred to as Platform Engineering, SRE, and Developer Experience in other places
- We’re a small team, we work across disciplines
- Platform Engineering: Expanding and supporting our cross-product platform that Product Engineering teams build and run on top of. We aim to get close to “bring the application” with all the rest being batteries included
- SRE: Pairing with and collaborating with Product Engineering teams to help them build, ship, and support services that operate brilliantly, from lightweight architectural conversations through to deep integrations with Datadog and other tooling
- DX: Working with Engineering teams to help them work more efficiently, effectively, and with less frustration, including how they run locally and the path to Production
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
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40% female employees
139% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Ownership is key to how everyone works at Synthesia. Over the past 18 months since joining, I have been given ownership of a vast array of exciting..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$90m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.7m
Company benefits
- đź“ŤYou will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- đź’¸ Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company values
- Outcomes over Inputs & Plans: We value outcomes and iterations, not inputs
- Be an Owner: Acting like an owner is encouraged: Ask questions, challenge decisions and show leadership
- Make the Journey Fun: We strive for an informal, low hierarchy culture where we can all be our true selves.
- Default to Simple:Â Simple is better - until it's not. But in most cases we can stick to very simple solutions
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Founders
Victor Riparbelli
(CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO & CFO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
People progressing
Joined Synthesia in June 2022 as a Customer Support Associate, promoted to a different department as a Customer Onboarding Manager in January 2024.
Joined Synthesia in April 2022 as an SDR. Promoted in January 2023 to a Senior SDR, and promoted again in January 2024 to a Strategic SDR lead for EMEA.
Joined Synthesia in April 2023, promoted to a different department as a Customer Success Manager in May 2024.
Joined Synthesia in October 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a different department as an Account Executive in October 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a Senior Customer Success Manager in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2020 as a Full Stack Engineer, promoted to an Engineering Lead in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in January 2018 as a Research Engineer, promoted to a Senior Research Engineer in March 2021.
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