Lead Software Engineer Site Reliability
Lead Software Engineer Site Reliability
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Job Description
Overview
At Freshworks uptime is sacred. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) youll be the engineer behind the curtaindesigning for resilience automating recovery and ensuring our systems stay fast stable and observable at scale. Youll partner closely with engineering platform and product teams to shift reliability left and set the standard for performance and availability.
If you live for clean telemetry root cause resolution and engineering chaos into confidence this is your playground.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement tools to improve availability latency scalability and system health.
- Define SLIs/SLOs manage error budgets and drive performance engineering efforts.
- Build and maintain automated monitoring alerting and remediation pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability by design.
- Lead incident response root cause analysis and blameless postmortems.
- Champion observability across serviceslogs metrics traces.
- Contribute to infrastructure architecture automation and reliability roadmaps.
- Advocate for SRE best practices across teams and functions.
Requirements
- Coding Proficiency: Develop clear efficient and well-structured code.
- Linux Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Linux for system administration and advanced troubleshooting.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for application deployment and management.
- CI/CD Management: Design implement and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.
- Security & Compliance: Understand security best practices and compliance in infrastructure.
- High Availability & Scalability: Design and implement highly available scalable and resilient distributed systems.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation: Proficient in IaC tools and automating infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Disaster Recovery (DR) & High Availability (HA): Deep knowledge and practical experience with various DR and HA strategies.
- Observability: Implement and utilize monitoring logging and tracing tools for system health.
- System Design (Distributed Systems): Design complex distributed systems with a focus on reliability and operations.
- Problem-Solving & Troubleshooting: Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills for resolving complex system issues.
Qualifications :
- Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 7-9 years of experience in SRE DevOps or Production Engineering roles.
- Experience building and scaling services in production with high uptime targets (99.99%).
- Clear track record of reducing incident frequency and improving response metrics (MTTD/MTTR).
- Strong communicator who thrives in high-pressure environments.
- Passionate about automation chaos engineering and making things just work.
Additional Information :
At Freshworks we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion irrespective of their background gender race sexual orientation religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees communities and the business.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
