About Saarthee:

Saarthee is a Global Strategy, Analytics, Technology and AI consulting company, where our passion for helping others fuels our approach and our products and solutions. Our diverse and global team work with one objective in mind: Our Customers Success. At Saarthee, we are passionate about guiding organizations to wards insights fueled success. That's why we call ourselves Saarthee–inspired by the Sanskrit word Saarthi, which means charioteer, trusted guide, or companion. Cofounded in 2015 by Mrinal Prasad and Shikha Miglani, Saarthee already encompasses all the components of Data Analytics consulting. Saarthee is based out of Philadelphia, USA with office in UK and India.

Position: Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Min-Max Experience: 7-9 years

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Service Reliability Engineer (SSRE) to join our technology team. This role focuses on ensuring the stability, scalability, and reliability of cloud-based services and applications. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Linux systems, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure technologies, along with the ability to mentor junior engineers and influence architecture decisions across the organization.

Your Role Responsibilities and Duties:

Take a leadership role in improving system reliability and scalability.
Work closely with SRE management to define KPIs, processes, and continuous improvement strategies.
Drive architectural decisions and provide operational input into solution design.
Mentor and guide junior SREs, enabling their success.
Represent operational scalability and reliability considerations in the wider organization.
Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation.
Provide technical leadership for platform-wide solutions.
Contribute to incident response, monitoring, and operational readiness throughout the software lifecycle.
Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Mandatory:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology or related discipline.
7–9 years of experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Expertise as a Linux Production Systems Engineer managing large-scale Web Services infrastructure.
Development experience in Python (preferred) or one of Shell Scripting, Bash, Go, Java, C++, Rust.

Additional Expertise (at least 3 areas):

Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph).
NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra).
Data aggregation (Elasticsearch, Kafka).
RDBMS scaling & HA (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Monitoring & Alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and Incident Management.
Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment & management).
Software Distribution and Package Management.
Configuration Management (Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef).
Software Performance Analysis & Load Testing (QA/SDET experience is a plus).

Technologies We Use –

Linux, Python, Java, Go, C++, Rust, Hadoop, Ceph, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CI/CD

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