Esper.io - Senior Software Development Engineer - Site Reliability (5-8 yrs)

Role : Senior Software Development Engineer - SRE

JOB DESCRIPTION :

In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with extraordinary talent to deliver end to end features, improve platform quality and be a technical leader.

If you- re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the device industry, you- ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.

Why this role is unique :

- You'll be responsible for end to end implementation and maintenance of the features, fixes and enhancements to the platform.

- Your contributions directly and immediately improve the experience of our customers

- You get to work on cutting edge technologies

- You'll solve scalability problems that come with managing millions of devices

- Each project you take up will increase the scope of your impact on the platform

What you'll do :

- Improve Esper Platform by planning, recommending and executing strategic projects.

- Use metrics and data to provide insights on customer usage, bottlenecks, future requirements, security and scalability of the platform.

- Create standards, guidelines, sample projects, demos to influence engineering teams to write stable, secure, maintainable and quality code.

- Work with distributed teams to drive changes, write RCAs and coordinate resolution for production incidents.

- Work with distributed teams to drive changes, write RCAs and coordinate resolution for production incidents.

- Objectively assess new technologies, tools, frameworks and design patterns for adoption into Esper Platform.

- Become the Subject Matter Expert(SME) for the Platform SRE team.

- Responsible for all the SRE tasks in performance testing, API test automation

- Responsible for all the SRE tasks maintaining the Kubernetes clusters, Automations

- Responsible for release related task

What we- re looking for :

- 5+ YOE Hands on experience in building and managing cloud systems on one or more providers e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure etc

- Knowledge of CS fundamentals like Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networks

- Experience in in designing, developing and deploying at least one customer facing project

- Hands on knowledge of scripting or any modern programming languages.

- Experience in developing and deploying on UNIX/Linux based systems.

- Hands-on experience in performance optimization using multiple metrics.

- Hands-on experience in microservices and container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.

- Understanding of best security practices for implementing IAC, automation and CI/CD workflows.

- Experience in Jenkins, Buildkite.

- Knowledge on Performance testing and Automation testing.