HBO’s Digital Products team encompasses HBO’s Web Properties (HBO.com, Cinemax.com), HBO GO, HBO NOW for browser, Mobile (iPhone, iPad, Android, television (Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV, Roku, TiVO) and more. Our engineering teams are responsible for actively building and improving our streaming technology while at the same time creating the next generation of HBO applications and services. 

SRE at HBO:

As a Site Reliability Engineer at HBO you will be working to improve the reliability and performance of HBO’s premiere digital services including HBO GO and HBO NOW, HBO.com and exciting sites like hooli.xyz, GameOfThrones.com and DiscoverWestworld.com. You will be deeply hands-on with cloud-based infrastructure, Linux systems, automation, monitoring and systems telemetry. This person will understand the challenges around rapidly creating, scaling and managing geographically distributed applications and will be able to collaborate with talented engineers across multiple disciplines to address those challenges.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Demonstrable knowledge of cloud based software deployments on the cloud stack of your choosing (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack VMWare)
  • A high degree of familiarity with Linux containers and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Mesos
  • Strong understanding of HTTP, REST, networking concepts and global load-balancing
  • A passion towards automation - we’re continuing to automate anything possible
  • Work cross-functionally within a service team and be a core contributor in every significant engineering solution that is delivered
  • Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
  • Participate in on-call rotations, along with every member of the engineering team
  • Solid understanding of system design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs
  • Solid programming and troubleshooting skills. You may be called upon to help with systems written in Go, Python, Node.js. You won’t be expected to know everything, but we are looking for people who can dig through a codebase for debugging and commit tactical fixes as needed.
  • 1 – 10+ years of experience. We’re looking for talented engineers at all experience levels.