Site Reliability Engineer

SRE Observability Developer

Location: Hyderabad | Exp: 5–10 Years | Focus: Observability-as-Code & Automation

Role Overview

We are hiring an SRE Engineer to mature the observability and RCA capabilities of our high-scale UPI payment platforms. This is a hands-on, code-driven role focused on building reliable telemetry pipelines, transaction correlation, and automated alerting frameworks. You will treat monitoring configurations as code to ensure consistent, scalable operational intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Telemetry Standardization: Build and standardize metrics, logs, and traces across app, middleware, and infra layers. Implement custom tags/attributes for unified drill-down dashboards.
• Transaction Correlation: Enable correlation for asynchronous UPI flows to provide end-to-end visibility across distributed services.
• SLO & Alert Engineering: Define Golden Signals and SLIs for critical journeys (P2P, P2M). Implement Alert-as-Code using config-based anomaly detection and noise-reduction logic.
• Observability-as-Code: Automate the provisioning of Grafana dashboards, alert rules, and collector configurations (Otel/Fluentd) using version-controlled scripts.
• RCA & Intelligence: Build RCA-focused views for Redis, Kafka, YugabyteDB, and Nginx. Use synthetic monitoring and black-box exporters to gain visibility into partially controlled systems.
• Operational Integration: Convert incident learnings into automated telemetry patterns. Embed observability validation into deployment and release workflows.

Must-Have Skills

1. Observability Stack

• Expertise: Prometheus/Victoria Metrics, Victoria Logs/Traces, OpenTelemetry (OTel), and Fluentd.
• Tooling: Advanced Grafana, Alertmanager, and various infrastructure exporters.
• Development: Ability to develop Custom Exporters using OpenTelemetry SDKs for unique business/transaction metrics.

2. Systems & Middleware

• Knowledge: Deep understanding of Redis, Kafka, Nginx, and YugabyteDB (or similar distributed DBs).
• App Tier: Proficiency with JVM/Spring Boot Actuator metrics and asynchronous request/response patterns.
• Environment: Experience with high-scale, low-latency platforms; UPI/Payments domain is highly preferred.

3. Scripting & Automation

• Core Skills: Strong Python and Shell/Bash for automating telemetry validation and collector lifecycle management.
• Mindset: Ability to treat all monitoring assets (dashboards, rules, configs) as code artifacts.

What We're Looking For

• An engineer who sees a dashboard as a product of code, not just a UI task.
• Strong debugging skills across complex, on-prem distributed systems.
• The ability to bridge the gap between what happened and where the code failed through advanced correlation.