Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - hardware, software, application, and network
• Work to improve the reliability and performance of the next generation of distributed systems and containerized deployments
• Work to improve the reliability and performance of the next generation of distributed systems and containerized deployments
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems handling millions of queries per second
• Day-to-day work is heavily command-line driven, which requires a strong understanding of Linux.
• Participate in on call rotation Design build and maintain core infrastructure that enables Phonepe scaling to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
• Actively take part in the Analysis and System improvement plan.
• Drive performance testing, capacity planning and high availability practices.
• Own implementations of new technologies while ensuring proper testing and documentation.
• Proactively monitor/identify/solve issues which could have a potential impact to our Infrastructure.
• Natural team player and also have a resourceful attitude.
• Buddy new team members, and get them production ready.

Skills Required

• Minimum of 7-13 years of strong hands-on experience in Linux / Unix System Administration, including TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancers.
• Expertise in managing and scaling proxy infrastructure, including configuring and optimizing proxies (e.g. Nginx, HAProxy).
• Knowledge in Database technologies, specifically in MySQL/NoSQL. Good to have exposure on Aerospike NoSQL.
• In-depth knowledge in Python to automate tasks with minimal intervention.
• Knowledge of Linux cloud services using kvm/qemu/lvm.

Preferred candidate profile