Lead Software Engineer - Site Reliability

Freshworks

Chennai, India
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On-site
7-12 years sre or devops experience
Linux system administration expertise
Docker and kubernetes orchestration
Freshworks is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Site Reliability in Chennai, India, to enhance system reliability and performance through innovative engineering practices. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, and system design, with a strong emphasis on automation and troubleshooting

Job Summary

  • The role involves designing for resilience and automating recovery to ensure systems stay fast and stable at scale.
  • Candidates will partner with engineering teams to shift reliability left and define SLIs/SLOs while managing error budgets.
  • Freshworks seeks a leader who champions observability across services and drives performance engineering efforts.

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Freshworks is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Site Reliability in Chennai, India, to enhance system reliability and performance through innovative engineering practices. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, and system design, with a strong emphasis on automation and troubleshooting.

Salary

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Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 7-12 years SRE or DevOps experience
  • Linux system administration expertise
  • Docker and Kubernetes orchestration
  • CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance
  • Infrastructure as Code proficiency
  • Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategies
  • Observability tools implementation

Nice-to-have

  • Chaos engineering passion
  • Blameless postmortem culture
  • Strong communication in high pressure
  • Root cause resolution skills
  • Performance engineering mindset

Key Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 7-12 years of production engineering experience
  • Track record of achieving 99.99% uptime targets

Work Rights

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