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# Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure at Favorited

- **Company:** Favorited
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/87adec2b-9448-45c6-864f-31ed1bbb349d

## Job description

## About favorited

At favorited, we believe that digital communities should be more than just spaces to watch content. Our platform is a place to connect, engage, and play, and empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections. Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But, if you’re a self-starter eager to shape the future of social interaction with a team that holds itself to the highest standards, this is the place for you. We value open, yet respectful communication and real-time feedback to help each other grow quickly. If you’re passionate about gaming and have a knack for gamifying everyday life, you’ll thrive in our fast-moving, collaborative environment.

## About the Role

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the infrastructure that powers favorited’s real-time platform. You will play a key role in building and maintaining systems that support high-traffic applications used by a rapidly growing global audience. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving system reliability, and building automation that allows engineering teams to move quickly and confidently.

## Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain highly reliable and scalable infrastructure supporting real-time applications.
- Build automation and tooling to improve system reliability, deployment processes, and operational efficiency.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems, ensuring learnings are incorporated into system improvements.
- Optimize infrastructure for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
- Manage and scale containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration technologies.
- Help define and enforce reliability standards, SLOs, and operational best practices across engineering teams.
- Continuously evaluate new infrastructure tools and practices to improve system resilience and developer productivity.

## What We’re Looking For

- 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Experience managing infrastructure for large-scale systems supporting millions of users.
- Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and distributed systems.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability systems (Dash0, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
- Strong scripting or programming experience in languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Deep understanding of reliability engineering practices including SLOs, SLIs, and incident management.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams.
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking and emerging protocols like HTTP/3.

Nice to Have:

- Experience supporting real-time streaming, gaming, or large-scale consumer applications.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing systems.
- Experience optimizing infrastructure costs in high-growth environments.
- Practical experience integrating AI agents into DevOps workflows.

Salary & Benefits Compensation: $150k - $200k base salary + options. Benefits Include:

- Unlimited PTO to prioritize work-life balance.
- 401(k) plan to invest in your future.
- Comprehensive health insurance to support your well-being.
- Paid company holidays for time to recharge.
- Competitive salary that values your expertise and contributions.

Where You’ll Work: This is a full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica.

EEOC Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Favorited

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Favorited is a creator-first interactive live-streaming platform that makes live content more fun, personal, and engaging for both creators and their audiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: David Tesler (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social/Platform Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Mobile Computing Software
- **Target customers**: B2C (live-streaming creators and their viewers), with strong focus on gaming and interactive content communities
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make live content more fun, personal, and interactive — for you and your audience.”

## Products & Services
- **[Favorited Platform]**: An interactive live-streaming application that provides tools for creators to engage with their audience in real-time, build a following, and boost earnings through gamification and in-app interactions. Type: SaaS / Mobile App.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $2.05M (Seed rounds: $1.3M in Jan 2025, $750K accelerator in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Abstract Ventures, Hacker Fellowship Zero, Integra Groupe, Parable Partners Management, Soma Ventures (PitchBook). A recent TechCrunch article also mentions backing from a16z, though this is not reflected in PitchBook’s investor list (conflicting reports).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~685% YoY to ~45-50 employees (LinkedIn/PitchBook). Recent news coverage (Jan 2025) and a rapidly expanding user base. Presence in US, Czechia, Canada, and UK.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Creator-first design** with built-in monetization and audience engagement tools (e.g., in-app characters, gamified interactions).
- **Real-time, interactive experience** that differentiates from passive live-streaming platforms.
- **Strong technical foundation** using modern infrastructure (Kubernetes, GCP, real-time streaming, event-driven architecture).

## Strategic Focus
- Empowering creators to reduce content creation burden and increase earnings.
- Expanding global user base and deepening community features.
- Scaling platform reliability and performance to support high-traffic, real-time applications.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, intense, and collaborative environment. Values open, respectful communication and real-time feedback. Ideal for self-starters passionate about gaming and social interaction.
- **Work Model**: Full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica, CA.
- **Notable Perks**: Unlimited PTO, comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) plan, paid company holidays, competitive salary + equity options (e.g., SRE role $150K–$200K base).
- **Engineering Culture**: Modern tech stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Go, TypeScript). Emphasis on reliability, scalability, and automation.

## Sources
1. [favorited.com](https://www.favorited.com/)
2. [Jobs at Favorited (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/406e86ad-92de-4238-85c0-fc55920346f0)
3. [PitchBook - Favorited Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/527370-13)
4. [LinkedIn - Favorited](https://www.linkedin.com/company/favapp)

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