Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Description
About the role:
Responsibilities:
- On-call and incidents: Triage alerts, investigate across apps and infrastructure (including Java services and data stores), lead or co-lead outage response, and drive RCA plus durable fixes.
- Partnership: Active triage with feature teams; support production releases and maintenance windows (coordination, validation, and monitoring); influence designs for observability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
- ECS: Support reliability and operations of Amazon ECS services (deploys, monitoring, troubleshooting).
- Platform: Proactively operate and improve AWS and managed services (e.g. RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch); capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost/efficiency work.
- Engineering: Build Python tooling and automation (scheduled jobs, CI integrations, reporting) and document runbooks for recurring operational work.
- Leadership: Mentor peers and act as technical lead when senior staff are unavailable.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s in CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6-9 years on large-scale Linux/UNIX production systems; 3+ years in a SRE, platform, or similar role with real production ownership.
- Strong Python/Scripting for production tooling; able to read and debug Java services in production.
- AWS at scale; MySQL and MongoDB; debug distributed server applications
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing, and APM) for monitoring, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
- Solid monitoring, alerting, and performance troubleshooting; clear communication during incidents and in writing.
- Effective team player in a distributed, fast-moving engineering org.
Skills
As published by lever · 5 questions · 5 written answers
Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Portfolio URL, Other website
- Do you have production on-call experience in the last 4-5 years?
- Approximately how many production incidents have you been directly involved in resolving?
- What is your strongest programming language for automation/scripting, and have you written production-grade tooling in it?
- What is your notice period?
- Are you willing to work for Hyderabad location?




