Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, Flickr
About the role
Job Title: Software Engineer 3 - Cloud Operations, Flickr
Job Level: IC3
As a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, you will be expected to own and manage multiple priorities with the broader strategic approach. Your role is crucial in driving the design, development, and maintenance of complex software applications, the development of processes, and approaches for tackling problems and projects. You’ll be able to use your technical expertise in helping us move beyond standard practices and contributing to the organization's long-term goals.
Your Opportunity
- Contributes to the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, cloud-native systems using AWS (ECS, Lambda, and related services), with a strong focus on automation and operational excellence.
- Own complex technical and operational initiatives from problem definition through execution, anticipating risks and driving solutions to completion.
- Take a leadership role in on-call operations, independently managing incidents, coordinating response efforts, and improving system reliability through root cause analysis and follow-through.
- Contributes to improving engineering and operational practices, including deployments, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, and support teams to deliver solutions that improve both system performance and user experience.
- Drive technical discussions and decision-making, clearly articulating trade-offs and aligning solutions with broader organizational goals.
What You Bring
- Strong experience building and operating distributed systems in AWS, with a focus on modern, cloud-native and serverless architectures.
- Proven ability to lead projects end-to-end, including defining approaches, breaking down ambiguous problems, and delivering impactful solutions.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or a related field, with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
- Deep understanding of production systems, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and debugging in live environments.
- Experience improving and scaling operational processes, with an emphasis on reliability, efficiency, and automation.
- Ability to go beyond standard best practices to develop pragmatic, effective solutions to complex problems.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions and collaborate across teams.
- Comfortable collaborating and sharing knowledge with peers.
Beyond The Skills
- Experience building or operating systems involving media uploads, processing pipelines, or large-scale content delivery (e.g., images, video, or other high-volume assets).
- Comfortable working across a mix of modern and legacy systems, and can quickly ramp up in unfamiliar technologies.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is $122,000- $183,000. This position is also remote-friendly, and as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled.
Benefits
Health, dental, vision insurance with 100% premium coverage for you and dependents • Health Savings Account contributions covering 90%+ of annual deductible • 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting • Professional development and learning opportunities • Remote work support (internet, fitness, coworking space reimbursements) • Company-sponsored therapy and coaching sessions