Sr. Software Engineer

About the role:

We are a modern agile product organization looking for an excellent DevOps engineer that can support and offload a remote product development team.

Our platform handles tens of thousands of requests/second with sub-second response times across the globe. We serve ads to some of the biggest live events in the world, providing reports and forecasts based on billions of log rows. These are some of the complex challenges that make development and operational work at INVIDI interesting and rewarding.

To accomplish this, we use the best frameworks and tools out there or, when they are not good enough, we write our own. Most of the code we write is Java or Kotlin on top of Dropwizard, but every problem is unique, and we always evaluate the best tools for the job. We work with technologies such as Kafka, Google Cloud (GKE, Pub/Sub), BigTable, Terraform and Jsonnet and a lot more.

The position will report directly to the Technical Manager of Software Development and will be based in our Chennai, India office.

Key responsibilities:

• You will maintain, deploy and operate backend services in Java and Kotlin that are scalable, durable and performant.
• You will proactively evolve deployment pipelines and artifact generation.
• You will have a commitment to Kubernetes and infrastructure maintenance.
• You will troubleshoot incoming issues from support and clients, fixing and resolving what you can
• You will collaborate closely with peers and product owners in your team.
• You will help other team members grow as engineers through code review, pairing, and mentoring.

Our Requirements:

• You are an outstanding DevOps Engineer who loves to work with distributed high-volume systems. You care about the craft and cherish the opportunity to work with smart, supportive, and highly motivated colleagues. You are curious; you like to learn new things, mentor and share knowledge with team members. Like us, you strive to handle complexity by keeping things simple and elegant.

• As a part of the DevOps team, you will be on-call for the services and clusters that the team owns. You are on call for one week, approximately once or twice per month. While on-call, you are required to be reachable by telephone and able to act upon alarm using your laptop.

Skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor / Masters graduation in computer science, or equivalent
• 4+ years of experience in the computer science industry
• Strong development and troubleshooting skill sets
• Ability to support a SaaS environment to meet service objectives
• Ability to collaborate effectively and work well in an Agile environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work in a fast-paced environment.

Highly Preferred:

• Experience building service applications with Dropwizard/Spring Boot
• Experience with cloud services such as GCP and/or AWS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience in Linux environment.
• Experience working with technologies such as SQL, Kafka, Kafka Streams
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with SCM and CI/CD tools such as GIT and Bitbucket
• Experience with build tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Experience in writing Kubernetes deployment manifests and troubleshooting cluster and application-level issues.

Physical Requirements:

• INVIDI is a conscious, clean, well-organized, and supportive office environment.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer are normal.

Note:

• Final candidates must successfully pass INVIDIs background screening requirements.
• Final candidates must be legally authorized to work in India.
• INVIDI has reopened its offices on a flexible hybrid model.