Xandr is a technology platform powering one of the largest global Advanced TV and Video advertising marketplaces in the industry. We scale our business as WarnerMedia people who independently build the Xandr platform and brand. For more than a decade, our data insights, premium content, powerful technology, and scaled direct-to-consumer distribution have given us a competitive edge — leading us to improving advertising for all brands, publishers, and consumers.
How do we do this? With talented, passionate people like you! We bring together people from diverse backgrounds and give them an opportunity to bring their ideas to life. Join our community to Make Advertising Better!
The Job
As a Big Data Systems Operations Engineer, you will build, operate and support our diverse Data Pipeline Platform, which consists of large Hadoop, HBase and Kafka clusters in an all Linux environment. The platform currently ingests 300TB of new data and runs 20,000 ETL jobs every day across 8 Hadoop, 5 HBase and 6 Kafka Clusters.
The Team
This growing team consists of curious, passionate, talented technologists who enjoy working on complex, large scale distributed file and messaging systems.
Our motto is to move fast and sustain optimal uptime. Our team members thrive in a learn and teach environment. Each team member is encouraged to explore solutions and efficienciesto support, optimize and maintain our systems. We are enthusiastic about automation and optimization.
The team is managing over 2,000 Linux servers via extensive automation tools.
You Will
Support a complex Data Pipeline Platform by monitoring, maintaining, provisioning and upgrading Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, Graph and ETL systems using proprietary automation tools.
Develop new tools to automate routine day-to-day tasks, such as security patching, software upgrades and hardware allocation. Utilize automated system monitoring tools to verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, and critical processes.
Troubleshoot and analyze hardware or software failures and provide solutions to recovery. Identify and resolve faults, inconsistencies and systemic issues.
Collaborate with engineering team partners to resolve complex system performance issues.
Support other teams during incidents or planned maintenance. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies. Drive and participate in postmortems to avoid repeated incidents.
Participate in on-call rotation, responding to alerts and system issues.
Modify, enhance and create new standard operating procedures for the team.
Identify and implement operational best practices and process improvements.
Develop and foster a positive relationship with team members and engineering partners, encouraging and sharing knowledge.
You Have
4+ years of relevant experience in implementing, troubleshooting and supporting the Unix/Linux operating system with concrete knowledge of system administration/internals
3+ years of relevant experience in scripting/writing/modifying code for monitoring/deployment/automation in one of the following (or comparable): Python, Shell
2+ years of relevant experience with any of the following technologies: Hadoop-HDFS, Yarn-MapReduce, HBase, Kafka
2+ years of relevant experience with any of the following technologies: Puppet or equivalent configuration management tool
Familiar with TCP/IP networking DNS, DHCP, HTTP etc.
Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels of the organization
Beneficial skills and experience (if you don’t have all of them, you can learn them at Xandr):
Experience with JVM and GC tuning is a plus
Regular expression fluency
Experience with Nagios or similar monitoring tools
Experience with data collection/graphing tools like Graphite and Grafana
Experience with tcpdump, ethereal, tshark and other packet capture and analysis tools
More About You
You are passionate about a culture of learning and teaching. You love challenging yourself to constantly improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to reach higher to make greatness happen
You care about solving big, systemic problems. You look beyond the surface to understand root causes so that you can build long-term solutions for the whole ecosystem
You believe in not only serving customers, but also empowering them by providing knowledge and tools
Our Perks
Comprehensive healthcare coverage
Flexible time off including volunteer days, vacation, and holidays
Professional development resources and education reimbursement
Paid parental leave
Fitness reimbursement
AT&T internet/phone and HBOMax discounts
401k with company match
Our Culture
Xandr strives to foster a diverse, inclusive and engaging work environment. Our inclusivity in action includes:
Staying connected and embracing this new normal as we work from home - we may be social distancing but we're #InsideTogether
Creating meaningful change for our communities and pathways for future generations of diverse talent through our employee volunteerism efforts
Sharing insight and stories on what it’s really like to work here
Providing accommodations for persons with disabilities, both for interviewees and for employees. Should you require an accommodation, please let us know and we’ll make arrangements
Awards
Xandr, its products and its executives have received several prestigious awards. In 2020 alone, Cablefax's annual The Faxies awards named Xandr’s EVP and GM Innovator of the Year and the Xandr technology organization Tech Team of the Year. In the same year, seven female executives were included in the Cynopsis list of Top Women in Media, and several of its products, innovations and client partnerships were recognized by esteemed outlets globally, including AdExchanger, Digiday, The Drum, ExchangeWire and Cynopsis. Concurrently, the company’s dedication to corporate social responsibility was recognized in Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas issue. Xandr was also included on Business Insider's Hottest AdTech Companies list in 2019 and 2018.
Xandr is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
