Lead Software Engineer - Site Reliability

Freshworks

Chennai, India
On-site
7-12 years sre or devops experience
Linux system administration expertise
Docker and kubernetes orchestration
Freshworks is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Chennai, India, to enhance system availability and performance through automation and collaboration with engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering, with a strong focus on coding, system design, and observability

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on designing for resilience, automating recovery, and ensuring systems remain fast, stable, and observable at scale.
  • Candidates will partner closely 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 to reduce complexity.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Freshworks is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Chennai, India, to enhance system availability and performance through automation and collaboration with engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering, with a strong focus on coding, system design, and observability.

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 implementation with logs metrics traces

Nice-to-have

  • Chaos engineering passion
  • Blameless postmortem culture
  • Strong communication in high-pressure environments
  • Experience reducing incident frequency
  • 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

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