Second Spectrum is a Sports Emmy-winning data & tech company that is building the next way of seeing sports - by capturing and producing the highest quality data and innovative content for many of the world’s largest leagues and media partners, such as the NFL, NBA, English Premier League, ESPN, Amazon, and CBS Sports.

We are pushing the boundaries of deep tech -- machine learning, computer vision, big data, augmented and virtual reality. Our passion for cutting-edge design and decades of experience playing college and professional sports is an equal part of the magic that brings unique and innovative products to life. These products have helped Second Spectrum partners to multiple NBA championships, to win matches on football pitches around the world, to entertain and educate millions of fans on TV and digital. In 2021, Second Spectrum was acquired by Genius Sports, bringing together a unique combination of technological, operational and commercial capabilities. We're just getting started turning our joint vision of transformative sports technologies into reality.

Second Spectrum is the place to be if you’re interested in working on cutting edge technology in sports, alongside incredibly driven and ambitious teammates. Our innovative and dynamic environment emphasizes opportunities for motivated individuals to maximize their growth and impact.

 

The Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer - On-Premise

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to be a member of the Infrastructure Engineering group. As we head closer to realtime data and video feeds, there’s a strong need to move towards the edge. In our case, this is the sports arenas themselves. Our goal is to build and design a system to scale deployments into thousands of arenas.

This is a hybrid role with the expectation of a minimum of 2 days in the Lausanne office per week 

Specifically, you can expect to:

• First and foremost, build and scale the deployment architecture that powers Second Spectrum’s products as we continue to grow
• Automate bare metal provisioning of Linux networking and GPU drivers with tooling like Ansible, Packer, and more.
• Collaborate with our install and video capture teams to design and implement our real time tracking systems for 100+ stadiums in North America and Europe
• Work with our install specialists and network engineers to provision and deploy the hardware and software systems to customer sites
• Design and implement robust telemetry for all of the services Second Spectrum operates.
• Mentor and collaborate with engineers on other teams to promote healthy devops practices.
• Participate in an on-call rotation that emphasizes eliminating repeating escalations.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years combined experience in SRE or Linux systems administration roles
• Strong fundamentals in bash and other scripting languages. Experience supporting and debugging issues with compiled languages such as Rust, Golang or C++
• Experience using container technologies to test locally and deploy into production environments
• Ability to articulate and make decisions about trade-offs between rapid iteration and high-quality products
• Dislike solving the same problems again and again - so you automate or eliminate them
• Like to collaborate with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide feedback
• Strong communication skills when discussing technical concepts with technical and non-technical colleagues

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying systems with an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) mindset
• Experience managing networking stacks for large (100+) amounts of deployments

 

Our Stack:

• Ansible, Packer, Bash, Rust
• Ubuntu Linux servers providing CPU and GPU compute, memory, and networking for real-time solution that delivers capture, tracking, and augmentation
• Planet and Cisco managed switches configured to enable PoE, jumbo frames, remote management tooling
• Docker and container scheduling (Kubernetes)
• Prometheus, Grafana, Loki

 

Our Work Environment and What You Will Benefit From

• Work on cutting-edge products for major professional sports leagues and teams.
• Team-oriented engineering practices (readable, maintainable, and efficient code).
• Flat hierarchy and collaborative management led by experienced and strong technical leads.
• Innovative and dynamic environment, which encourages self-development and opportunities to make an impact.
• Multicultural team with employees based across several countries (e.g., Switzerland, Denmark, France, United States).
  
  

What’s in it for you?

In addition to competitive salary and paid time off, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.  

 

How we work

We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Second Spectrum to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information on how it would work with this role.

Our employees stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing limits to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organization and to invest in our highly talented and diverse team.

Second Spectrum, part of Genius Sports Group, is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers, and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender identity or re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.