Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer in the SRE Team at HBK, you will be an integral part of our Platform team. This role involves focus on ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of our infrastructure and applications while adhering to our development practices and quality standards. You will be working in a fully remote, self-organizing, agile environment, collaborating with some of the best developers in the industry. This role is based in Chennai, India; however, you can work full-time remotely from anywhere in India. Additionally, periodic collaboration at our Chennai office is required for senior team meetings and offsite collaboration.

Responsibilities:

Design and Development:

Build and scale reliable, high-performance infrastructure aligned with best practices.

Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code to automate and enhance SRE processes.

Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices and knowledge sharing.

Implement new features and improvements based on stakeholder feedback and operational needs.

Agile Collaboration:

Team Engagement: Actively participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.

SAFe Practices: Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt (I&A), and other SAFe ceremonies.

Pair Programming: Engage in pair programming to enhance code quality, share knowledge, and improve team collaboration.

Sprint Goals: Collaborate with team members to achieve sprint goals and deliverables.

Backlog Refinement: Participate in backlog refinement sessions to clarify requirements and plan future work.

Continuous Improvement: Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

Tech Stack and Innovation:

Technology Exploration: Continuously explore and evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks that can improve the development process or product quality.

Prototyping: Create prototypes to explore new ideas and validate potential solutions.

Tech Debt Management: Identify and address technical debt to maintain codebase health and performance.

Continuous Learning:

Professional Development: Engage in continuous personal and professional growth through training, certifications, and attending conferences.

Knowledge Sharing: Share knowledge with team members through presentations, workshops, and documentation.

Feedback Integration: Actively seek and integrate feedback to improve skills and deliver high-quality work.

Skill Requirements:

3-5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, focusing on managing and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and applications.

Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerization and cloud environments like Azure, AWS or GCP.

Experience with GitOps using ArgoCD for managing deployments.

Manage and enhance CI pipelines using GitHub Actions.

Hands-on knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Crossplane, Terraform, Bicep.

Proficiency in monitoring and observability - PromQL, LogQL. OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

Reducing toil through automation using Bash, Taskfiles and IaC to enhance operational efficiency.

Ensure system resilience by contributing to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) planning and execution.

Understanding of FinOps principles and cost optimization.

Manage incident response, on-call rotations, and postmortems to enhance system reliability and minimize downtime.

Strong ability to work autonomously and pick up new tools and processes quickly.

Solid grasp of fundamental design principles for building scalable applications.

Nice to Haves:

Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks, including ISO27001, is a plus.

Experience with Go, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.