Sovrn offers products and services to tens of thousands of online publishers that help them grow, operate their business, understand their readership, and manage consumer data. Backed by Foundry Group.
About the role
As a Senior or Staff Cloud Engineer at Sovrn, you are a key technical decision-maker and force multiplier for our engineering organization. You'll design large-scale, enterprise-grade AWS architectures, lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation best practices across teams, and serve as an escalation point for complex production incidents. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Understand their business better , so they can make better decisions
- Operate their business more efficiently, so they can invest in what matters most
- Make (and Keep) more money , so they control their own destiny
- Manage, optimize, and scale a Databricks lakehouse layer to maximize performance, reduce costs and enforce governance frameworks (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, SCIM)
- Lead IaC adoption across teams — develop internal Terraform modules, implement policy-as-code, and architect CI/CD pipelines that fully automate infrastructure deployment and management
- Own observability for your services: design comprehensive monitoring, metrics, and alerting strategies that drive data-driven root cause analysis and meaningfully reduce escalation noise
More about this role
Every interesting company solves important problems for other people. Sovrn is a Software and Data business that helps Open Web businesses be and remain independent. We help them understand their business better, operate more efficiently, and make & keep more money.
- We believe in the freedom and free-flow of information.
- We believe the Open Web is the largest source of this information.
- We believe in helping Open Web businesses be and remain Independent.
- Understand their business better , so they can make better decisions
- Operate their business more efficiently, so they can invest in what matters most
- Make (and Keep) more money , so they control their own destiny
As a Senior or Staff Cloud Engineer at Sovrn, you are a key technical decision-maker and force multiplier for our engineering organization. You'll design large-scale, enterprise-grade AWS architectures, lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code and automation best practices across teams, and serve as an escalation point for complex production incidents. This role bridges deep technical ownership with cross-functional dependencies — you'll mentor engineers at multiple levels, translate architectural decisions...
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