Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Vimeo
$127.8-196k
All-in-one video experience platform
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All-in-one video experience platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$127.8-196k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Vimeo's mission is to empower video creators to tell exceptional stories, and connect with their audiences and communities.
Role
Who you are
- At least six years of professional experience in software development with high proficiency in at least one general purpose programming language (C/C++, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, etc.)
- Deep understanding of the architectural patterns of high-scalability distributed systems
- Significant experience maintaining, optimizing, and administering Kubernetes deployments
- Strong knowledge of container orchestration and Linux system internals
- Significant experience with major cloud providers (Google Cloud, AWS)
- Significant experience with deploying and administration of MySQL
- Experience with “Infrastructure as Code” platforms such as Terraform
- Experience with observability systems, such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, OpenCensus, and Graphite
Desirable
- Knowledge of ArgoCD, Atlantis, Varnish, Memcached, and/or Chef
- Experience with generalized build systems (make, bazel, please, etc.) or language-specific build systems (SWC, Turborepo, etc.)
What the job involves
- Do you love working with cloud infrastructure at scale? Optimizing the last bit of performance and efficiency out of applications that get hundreds of thousands of requests per second? Digging deep to determine the root cause of an outage? Building and maintaining infrastructure toolkits that hundreds of developers will use? Maintaining large distributed databases?
- Come work on the Site Reliability Engineering team at Vimeo! Your job will be to design, develop, deploy, maintain, and optimize the platform that powers an application that is part of the infrastructure of the Internet: Vimeo. SRE at Vimeo spans the domains of platform engineering, database administration, release engineering, and internal tools
- Build, secure, and evolve platforms which power the applications that make up Vimeo
- Build and maintain tooling which makes manual infrastructure work obsolete and enables self service for engineers
- Improve observability and reliability of applications to reduce outages to an absolute minimum, while reducing MTTA and MTTR
- Write and maintain thorough documentation to share with your teammates around the world, allowing them all to function as a cohesive unit
- Contribute to an internal self-service infrastructure platform used by all engineers for application development and deployment
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation shared between offices in the US and India, which includes responding to production incidents and providing internal support to other engineers at Vimeo
- Whatever it takes (within reason) to make Vimeo faster, simpler, more scalable, more reliable, and more efficient to operate
Our take
Vimeo was founded by filmmakers who wanted an efficient way to share videos with others. It is more creator-oriented than YouTube, with professional software, technology, and tools for creators to produce, share, and sell their videos.
In 2007, it became the first online video sharing site to support HD playback for consumers, updating to 4K playback in 2016. Vimeo's app has also been updated to allow recording and live streaming as well as watching video. This service is aimed predominantly at enterprise customers although they have millions of small-time users too.
Vimeo has risen to become the world's biggest ad-free open video platform, with significant funding that has allowed it to expand operations and build up the business. Recently, however, the company has found itself struck by the effects of the economic downturn felt by much of the industry, and has been forced to reduce its workforce - a step taken to ensure it comes out of this rough time "a stronger company". On top of this, it received a hefty fine for failure to remove copyrighted content back in 2019, after losing an appeal against the initial ruling.
In 2024, Vimeo is rumoured to be in the process of acquisition by leading mobile app developer Bending Spoons, which could signify a major shift in the tech landscape.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2020
$150m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $450m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical and dental
- Daily breakfast, plus snacks and drinks aplenty
- Company outings and events
- Tuition reimbursement
- Company equity
- Company-matched charitable donations
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- Company-matched 401k
Company values
- Start with Users: Understand our users’ goals, and make them your own. Solve for what users need, not what they ask for.
- Ask Why: Respectfully challenge ideas and embrace open debate. Validate intuitions with evidence.
- Aim High: Be willing to take risks to deliver outsized impact. Greatness only comes from making bold decisions.
- Own It: Commit to targets. Take the initiative, follow through and own the outcome. If processes are slowing you down, introduce better ones.
- Be Real: Seek feedback and give it generously. Be direct. Be candid. Most of all, be you.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
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Leadership
Adam Gross
(Interim CEO)Currently Board Member at Buildkite. Previously Chair of the Board of Directors at Democracy Works and the CEO of Salesforce.
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