Senior Site Reliability Engineer
✨ AI Summary
Employ, a talent acquisition software company with ATS solutions like Jobvite, Lever, and JazzHR, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Bangalore (hybrid). The role focuses on AI-native SRE practices, observability, incident response, and automation. Tech stack includes Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Requires 5+ years of SRE or software engineering experience, proficiency in languages like Python, Go, or Java, and strong Linux and distributed systems knowledge. Perks include flexible work and a continuous learning culture.
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Bangalore, India - Hybrid
Job Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and play a key role in building highly reliable, scalable, and efficient systems. You will be instrumental in driving modern engineering practices that blend software engineering and infrastructure expertise. As an SRE, you’ll help maintain the health of our production environment, uphold service reliability standards. and implement tooling and automation that empowers engineering teams to move fast without compromising system stability.
You’ll work cross-functionally with developers and security teams to build observability, manage incidents, and proactively reduce toil through automation—creating systems that are not just available, but resilient and maintainable in an AI-native SDLC.
Key Responsibilities
Use AI as a core tool in daily SRE work, embedding architectural context and change history directly into code and systems so they remain legible to both engineers and AI agents over time
Deep dive into application codebases and directly contribute to improvements that drive the SRE mission, leaving code better than you found with each issue you tackle.
Participate in on-call rotations and command incident response with effective practices that improve time to recovery, preservation of evidence, and root cause analysis that prevents future occurrence and implements lessons learned into runbook improvements.
Own the design and effectiveness of observability systems that empower all engineers with alerting and visibility into the applications we are supporting.
Develop and manage sustainable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar along with CI/CD and orchestrators such as Kubernetes and ArgoCD to bake SRE into the SDLC and eliminate toilsome operational work.
Partner with roadmap delivery teams to implement and promote Site Reliability Engineering best practices within their workflows such as the systematic implementation of SLIs/SLOs, production readiness assessments, etc.
Collaborate with Security teams to ensure systems align with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and other compliance standards
Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continually improve our SRE capabilities
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineer or a similar role
Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages such as Typescript, Java, Python, Go, PHP, or Ruby
Strong experience with Unix/Linux systems administration and internals
Solid understanding of system design, distributed computing, and SRE principles
Expertise with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with one or more cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Hands-on experience with any of the CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions CI/CD, Argo CD etc..
Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications (Good to Have)
Proficiency in scripting and automation using tools such as NodeJS
Familiarity with NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB
Ability to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot performance in large scale high-availability environments
Experience with backup, replication, and data recovery strategies
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Why Join Us
Continuous learning culture with opportunities to explore emerging technologies
Will be engaged in developing and maintaining applications across multiple ecosystems, each with distinct architectural patterns and design considerations
Collaborate with talented engineers who value innovation and ownership
Flexible work environment with a focus on outcomes and autonomy
About the Company
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