Staff Engineer - DevOps

Job description

Xperi invents, develops and delivers technologies that create extraordinary experiences at home and on the go for millions of people around the world. Powering billions of consumer electronics, connected cars and digital content titles, we make entertainment more immersive, driving more intelligent and every interaction seamlessly personalized through our renowned consumer brands: DTS®, HD Radio™, and TiVo®. Xperi (NYSE: XPER) is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in San Jose, CA with over 1800 employees across North America, Europe and Asia. Come join a thriving team where you can play an integral role in shaping the future of entertainment technology. About the role: We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to manage cloud infrastructure, enable delivery of product features, and design scalable solutions to complex operational challenges across our portfolio. Our team manages multiple products with global reach and demanding scale requirements. Key highlights include: AutoStage, a global API servicing the automotive industry with enhanced radio, audio, and video content for vehicles worldwide; and Music Metadata, which supplies music-related data to industry-leading clients including Pandora, Google, and Microsoft to enrich their customers' search and listening experiences. Built on a modern microservices architecture deployed on Google Cloud Platform, our infrastructure leverages Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and comprehensive observability tooling. Our systems handle over 1 billion daily requests. You'll collaborate closely with development teams across products in an Agile environment to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability. What you’ll get to do: Manage multi-region GCP infrastructure at scale (1B+ requests/day) Diagnose high- and low-level performance issues in a highly distributed environment Manage and develop GKE Kubernetes clusters Migrate other projects hosted on-prem or on different solutions to our stack Use and improve existing monitoring systems Identify time-consuming tasks and automate them Maintain standards of security, reliability, performance and quality Research best practices and technologies and implement them into your day-to-day work Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation, only after you are up-to-speed with our products. Who we are looking for: Must have: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles 3+ years of experience with Linux and Networking in production environments 2+ years of experience with running Kubernetes in a production environment Experience managing infrastructure with a major cloud provider, GCP most preferably Experience with time-series-based monitoring systems (Prometheus, Datadog, etc.) Experience with coding in Terraform Experience managing Kubernetes configurations with Helm Experience writing automations in Python or similar scripting language Nice to have: Experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI) Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery) Container registries and image security scanning Experience with terragrunt Experience with incident management and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, blameless post-mortems) Image building tools (Packer, Cloud Build) What will make you successful: The ability to propose, design and develop solutions that scale Keen troubleshooting skills Excellent written and oral communication skills Expert problem-solving skills Strong documentation practices Life @ Xperi: At Xperi, we value People, Customers, Performance and Innovation. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where all employees have a voice and sense of belonging, feel safe and valued, and are acknowledged for how their unique differences contribute to organizational culture and business outcomes. Our employees and their families are important to us, and our comprehensive pay, stock and benefits programs reflect that. Xperi supports personal well-being, builds financial security and enables employees to share in our collective success. Rewards include: Competitive compensation (salary, equity and bonuses) and comprehensive benefits designed to foster work-life balance, care for your health, protect your finances and help you save and invest for the future. Generous paid time away from work, including flexible time off, holidays and sick time, health and wellness initiatives, and a charitable match program to help you give back to your community. Great perks, which vary by location and can be site-specific: employee discounts, transportation reimbursements, subsidized cafes and fitness facilities. A flexible, hybrid work environment combining the best of in-office collaboration and community-building along with the benefits of working from home. We would like to inform you that the Whistleblower and Abuse Reporting and Handling Policy, referred to in Article 24 (1) of the Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers of 14.06.2024 (Journal of Laws of 2024, item 928), in effect at TiVo POLAND sp. z o.o., based in Warsaw, is available here.