Senior DevOps Engineer

Karat; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Karat is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Bengaluru to evolve AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability for our hosted SaaS platform. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Analytics to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while shaping developer experience.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, CircleCI/GitHub Actions, Docker, Linux, and solid communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Significant hands-on AWS production experience.
• Experience designing, operating, and improving CI/CD systems (CircleCI preferred).
• Strong Docker and containerized environments.
• Solid Linux, networking, and security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS SaaS infrastructure for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment safety, speed, and repeatability.
• Build and maintain observability capabilities with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve reliability, capacity planning, incident response, and learning from outages.
• Influence engineering decisions and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Linux

Networking

Observability

Tools

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Datadog

Job description

Our Engineering team builds the infrastructure, reporting, and data products that turn Karat’s unique interview and performance data into meaningful insights. We partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and the business to create a reliable data foundation and to improve how Karat understands, uses, and delivers data.

What you will do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you willhelp evolve the infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices that enable the Company's engineering teams to build and run reliable software. You will establish consistent, scalable approaches to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, alerting, operational readiness, and ongoing maintenance while partnering closely with software engineers to improve the developer experience while strengthening the reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency of Karat’s hosted SaaS platform.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

• Own and evolve Karat’s AWS SaaS infrastructure, ensuring services are secure, scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.
• Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI and related tooling, improving deployment safety, speed, repeatability, and developer experience.
• Build and maintain observability capabilities including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting using Datadog and related tools.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to define and improve service reliability, availability, performance, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational learning.
• Influence engineering-wide technical decisions and delivery practices through strong partnership, practical standards, and clear communication.

The experience you will bring

Cloud, infrastructure, and delivery

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Significant hands-on production experience with AWS. This is a required qualification
• Demonstrated experience designing, operating, and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or another major CI/CD platform. Experience with CircleCI is strongly preferred
• Strong experience with Docker and containerized application environments
• Strong Linux, networking, security, and cloud-infrastructure fundamentals

Reliability and operations

• Practical experience applying SRE principles to production systems, including observability, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvement
• Hands-on experience with a leading telemetry and observability platform, such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, or Splunk. Datadog experience is strongly preferred
• Experience designing useful monitoring and alerting systems that reduce noise, support effective incident response, and improve service ownership
• Experience with cloud cost management and optimization, including the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs among cost, reliability, performance, and engineering velocity

Collaboration and leadership

• Experience partnering with application-engineering teams to establish shared infrastructure and operational practices
• Clear written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to explain complex infrastructure and reliability issues to varied technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort working with globally distributed teams and regularly collaborating with colleagues in the United States

This position is only available to candidates residing in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore). While our team operates 100% remotely, we are currently limiting hiring to this specific location. We will not consider applications from other cities in India at this time.

Applicants, please note: we will not consider submissions that are not 100% in English.