SRE II
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Job Title: SRE II</span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Company: Upstox</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Location: Mumbai /Bangalore</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Work arrangement: 5 days in the office</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:DarwinSans;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">About Upstox</span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">At Upstox, we’re building the future of investing — simple, powerful,
and for everyone. We're one of India’s fastest growing fintech platforms,
backed by the best in the business, including Mr. Ratan Tata and Tiger Global,
and on a mission to make wealth creation accessible to every Indian. From
first-time investors to seasoned traders, millions trust us to power their
financial journeys. We're not just moving fast — we’re moving with purpose. If
you thrive in a high-energy, high-impact environment, you're in the right
place.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:115%;font-family:DarwinSans;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">What you'd
own</span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:115%;font-family:DarwinSans;">- </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Build and maintain our in-house developer
platforms — full-stack applications that provision and manage resources across
multiple environments, spanning Kubernetes, CI/CD and observability.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Run a multi-cluster
Kubernetes fleet across multiple regions — several hundred production services,
with complete GitOps delivery.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Develop and implement
automation for infrastructure provisioning and related tooling to streamline
engineering and infrastructure operations.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Design, implement and
maintain infrastructure components.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Identify, diagnose
and resolve performance bottlenecks and issues across environments.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Advocate for and
promote best practices in software development and enhance the developer
experience across engineering teams.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Own scaling, capacity
and application performance strategy — defining SLOs and SLIs, managing error
budgets, and driving capacity planning across the fleet.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Manage security and
compliance policies as code across the fleet.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:115%;font-family:DarwinSans;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Required</span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Bachelor's degree in
computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Experience- 3-5 Years</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Proficiency in at
least one modern programming language — Python preferred, for building
full-scale application services covering web frameworks, databases and queues
(not just scripting).</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- In-depth experience
with AWS, Linux and Kubernetes.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Proven
troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Experience with CI/CD
and automation pipelines, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Ansible,
Terraform) and GitOps (ArgoCD) tooling.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Sound reasoning about
concurrency and failure: idempotency, optimistic concurrency, delivery
semantics.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Nice to
have</span></span></b></p><p><b></b></p><b></b><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Understanding of
extending the Kubernetes API: CRDs and controller runtimes.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Service mesh
experience, ideally Istio.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- Familiarity with LLMs
and MCP, fluency with AI coding tools, and experience authoring skills for
coding agents.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">- A strong point of
view on where AI should and shouldn't be trusted in a safety-critical system</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:115%;font-family:DarwinSans;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-size:initial;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:DarwinSans;color:rgb(34,35,38);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:DarwinSans;">By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have reviewed
our </span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:DarwinSans;"><a href="https://assets.upstox.com/files/privacy-policy/prospective-employee-privacy-notice.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b>Prospective Employee Privacy Notice</b></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">, which outlines how Upstox collects, uses, and protects your Personal
Information ("PI"). I accept Upstox's Prospective Employee Privacy
Notice.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:DarwinSans;font-size:14px;">Upstox is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin,
genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-size:initial;"><b><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:DarwinSans;"> </span></b></p>