Senior Software Engineer - SRE at Vibe

ABOUT VIBE At Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] we're reimagining how brands reach audiences in the age of streaming. We believe streaming TV is no longer just a brand awareness play, it's the next great performance marketing channel. We're building the infrastructure to unlock this $100B opportunity. Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] provides an Audience First Streaming TV Advertising solution for marketers to unlock TV as a growth channel. Our all-in-one solution combines hyper-targeted audience segmentation, AI-powered insights and recommendations, real-time campaign optimization, and incrementality measurement, giving brands of all sizes the precision and transparency they've come to expect from social and search, but on TV. Trusted by over 10,000 brands, Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] reaches more than 120 million households across 500+ apps and channels, delivering an average 250% return on ad spend and 20% sales lift. The company hit a $100 million revenue run rate in under two years, ranking among the ten fastest software companies to reach that milestone. Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] investors include Hedosophia (an early backer of Spotify, Uber, and Airbnb), Elaia, Singular, QuantumLight (Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky's fund), and Illusian (Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen's fund), as well as angel investors including Carolyn Everson, board member of The Walt Disney Company and Coca-Cola. Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor, sits on the company's board of directors. Founded in 2022, Vibe.co [Upgrade to PRO to see link] is widely recognized as the category-defining platform in streaming TV advertising, bringing the power of Meta and Google-style performance marketing to the fastest-growing segment in media. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll join the Infra Platform team — the backbone of everything engineering at Vibe. We own hosting, provisioning, observability, CI/CD, internal tooling, security, and compliance. Every product and platform team runs on what we build. You’ll report to our Lead Platform Engineer, and together with the team, you’ll help shape the technical direction and uphold the infrastructure standards the whole company relies on. This role exists because our platform is growing fast, and more than 60 engineers depend on it every day. We’re looking for someone who can take on real ownership and help shape how it scales. You’ll work on infrastructure handling more than 600k QPS, latency targets under 10ms, and over 5 PB of storage. Just as importantly, you’ll be someone other engineers turn to when the hard problems show up, which gives this role real influence across the company. WHAT YOU'LL DO Keep the platform running at scale - Own reliability across hosting, provisioning, network, and compute — targeting 99.99% uptime - Proactively maintain infrastructure, track drift, and lead migrations before they become incidents - Respond to production issues quickly, communicate clearly, and fix root causes for lasting improvements. Build and evolve cloud infrastructure - Design and implement core infra components that scale to the next orders of magnitude - Make smart build-vs-buy calls and evolve systems as business needs shift - Manage infrastructure as code across different providers Improve developer experience across the org - Make it easier for engineering teams to move fast - Build shared tooling: internal CLIs, shared libraries, automation scripts in Go or Python - Partner with dev teams to help them ship faster without creating technical debt Support ML infrastructure and build real-time streaming systems - Support the infrastructure behind frequent model retraining on large datasets - Help improve compute efficiency and model serving performance to meet inference latency targets - Build, scale, and `operate the real-time streaming platform Champion security with exposure to compliance requirements - Enforce best practices around permissions, secret handling, and network security - Support SOC2 compliance work and embed security into new projects from day one - Be the pragmatic voice in risk trade-offs — protection without paralysis WHAT YOU NEED - Hands-on experience operating production infrastructure at meaningful scale, with strong instincts around reliability, resilience, and performance under load - Strong experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform, with ownership of the full lifecycle from implementation to continuous improvement - Fluency in at least one systems-oriented language, ideally Go or Python, with the ability to build automation and operational tooling - Deep experience with CI/CD, observability, and production operations, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and debugging live systems - Comfortable leading incident response, improving service reliability, and driving root cause resolution - Able to support product and engineering teams as a trusted infrastructure partner - Uses AI effectively in day-to-day engineering, with strong judgment about when it adds leverage and when deeper manual work and critical thinking matter more. NICE TO HAVES - Built internal developer tooling — service scaffolding, unified observability portals, self-serve provisioning - Hands-on experience with SOC2 compliance — you've helped a team get there, not just read about it OUR VALUES At Vibe, we run on three values: Impact, Ambition, and Urgency. We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions. You'll thrive here if you own outcomes without needing direction, default to action, and hold yourself to results, not effort. This is a high-performance environment with high-performance rewards: you'll work alongside people who push you, with real ownership over hard problems in a market that's moving fast. If that sounds like the best version of your career, we want to meet you. WHAT WE OFFER - Equity — Employee Stock Ownership Plan. You're building this; you should own part of it. - Variable pay — based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets. - Hybrid flexibility — We're in the Heart of Paris. - Health insurance — Full coverage via Alan. - Meal vouchers — Via Swile. - Annual offsite — The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip. - Tech Syncs — Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide. OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS We respect your time. Here's exactly what to expect — no surprises, no ghosting. 1. Recruiter screen — 30 min. We'll share context; you'll share yours. 2. Manager interview — Meet the person you'd work with directly. 3. Tech interview — A mix of closed and open-ended questions, followed by a practical exercise. 4. Calibration interview — A senior leader joins to ensure we're holding a consistent, high bar. 5. Offer — Fast. We don't let good decisions sit. 6. Reference checks — Two calls, handled with discretion. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Vibe is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe the best ideas come from teams with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.