MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
MediaLab Engineering supports a growing number of applications across multiple business verticals which have been acquired through a careful selection process to integrate with its internal Ad platform that processes billions of impressions a month. The technical effort involved is massive and we need go-getters looking to make a substantial impact.
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with high attention to detail and a professional, methodical and technical approach to the execution of software in a cloud architecture to work on Imgur - our image hosting and sharing platform that allows users to upload, store, and share images and animated GIFs.
The ideal candidate must be self-directed and prepared to scale their own responsibilities along with the company. We are looking for someone that is passionate about multi-faceted, large scale systems that serve billions of users on a daily basis.
What You'll Do
- Architect, implement and optimize Imgur’s software infrastructure stack.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and operability of Imgur’s production software components.
- Build automation and tools to deploy, configure, and manage Imgur’s applications.
- Troubleshoot stability and performance issues.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
What We're Searching For
- 4 years managing world-class production systems either as a DevOps Engineer, an SRE, or a Production Engineer.
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes is a must.
- Developing infrastructure as code with terraform.
- Experience with configuration management using Chef or similar configuration management software
- Experience operating cloud-based environments, AWS being preferred.
- Expertise in either systems (preferred!), databases, or Networks (layer 3 and higher).
- Strong scripting skills to develop custom tools and automation.
- Thorough understanding of best practices related to performance, disaster recovery, and security.
- English proficiency required.
At MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.
Top Skills
What We Do
@MediaLab we build, acquire & grows internet brands.
Driven by our mission to build community among our social media and mobile platforms, we invest in shared services and programmatic monetization through our social media exchange to connect purposeful brands with our vast audience of 95M+ Monthly Users (& growing).
Assembly Exchange is our owned and operated social media exchange providing programmatic access to diverse and elusive social audiences via our portfolio of owned & operated social networks including Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino Apps, Genius, Imgur and more.
MediaLab HQ is based in Santa Monica, California, with a growing presence in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil & broader Latin America.
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There are so many startups out there. What makes MediaLab so special?
1. We're small but tenacious. Motivated & hungry. Excited by the growth we've seen each year since our founding.
2. You see the day in and day out impact of YOUR work.
3. No sitting in a corner working on a tiny fraction of something impactful. Come here and actually OWN stuff.
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