Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE III)

 LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

Overview:

LivePerson is looking for a Devops  Engineer III/Senior Site Reliability Engineer  for the GPT (Global Product & Technology) Division. You will be part of the LivePerson SRE team building and managing highly available, distributed systems. You will have the opportunity to be part of a strong team and enjoy the work environment of a start-up, with a robust product and the benefits of a leading company in its field. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at our team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and systems that power our applications and services. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will drive operational excellence, automate processes, and continuously improve system reliability

You will: 

• Lead a team to ensure product high uptime and reliability 24x7.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Architect and implement automated solutions to provision, monitor, and scale complex infrastructures
• Give technical leadership and support to your team and stakeholders such as development teams, data team, and leadership.
• Being hands-on with your team on day to day operations of cloud environments, Kubernetes platform, data and messaging platform, and security/compliance
• Develop automation scripts, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and plan for scalability and capacity,
• Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance through monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for production environments.
• Lead post-incident reviews, collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify systemic improvements.
• Establish metrics for tracking incident frequency, response times, and resolution effectiveness

You have:

• Minimum 7+ years of experience of managing cloud based production environment (AWS, GCP, etc)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, proficient in collaborating with various stakeholders
• Solid hands-on experience and understanding of system architecture
• Highly experienced working in the Linux environment, good scripting in Bash / Python.
• Highly experienced working configuration management systems like Puppet, OpsCode Chef, Ansible, etc.
• Strong experience in Terraform, CloudFormation or other IAC
• Strong experienced in SQL (including DDL and complex queries) and managing SQL and NOSQL database systems, including MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Postgres, MySQL and others
• Strong experienced working in the Kubernetes platform and Helm
• Strong experience working in a microservices architecture using a message bus such as Kafka and Pulsar
• Experience in monitoring resources and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, DataDog and PagerDuty
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines orchestrators like TeamCity, Jenkins, Gitlab.
• Highly motivated and independent.
• Team player and excellent interpersonal Skills.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• A strong background in cloud, network and application security and compliance
• Experience with GPT or other LLMs a strong advantage

Benefits: 

The salary range for this role will be between 130,000 to 154,000 CAD. Final compensation will be determined by a variety of factors, including, but not limited to your location, skills, experience, education, and/or professional certifications. Regardless of your personal situation or where you are in the world, LivePerson offers comprehensive and great benefits programs to meet your needs:

• Health: medical, dental, vision and wellbeing.
• Time away: 15 days PTO, Public holidays as well 5 care days and 10 sick days.
• Financial: ESPP, Basic life and AD&D insurance, long-term and short-term disability
• Family: parental leave, maternity support, fertility services.
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Health Service Navigator, Counseling Services & resources to help you and your family maintain overall good health and wellness
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here: 

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.

The talent acquisition team at LivePerson has recently been notified of a phishing scam targeting candidates applying for our open roles. Scammers have been posing as hiring managers and recruiters in an effort to access candidates' personal and financial information.  This phishing scam is not isolated to only LivePerson and has been documented in news articles and media outlets.Please note that any communication from our hiring teams at LivePerson regarding a job opportunity will only be made by a LivePerson employee with an @liveperson.com email address.

LivePerson does not ask for personal or financial information as part of our interview process, including but not limited to your social security number, online account passwords, credit card numbers, passport information and other related banking information. If you have any questions and or concerns, please feel free to contact recruiting-lp@liveperson.com