Senior DevOps Engineer (India)

Karat; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Karat is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to evolve our AWS SaaS infrastructure, enhance CI/CD, and strengthen observability. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency of our hosted platform.

You will lead through SRE principles, design scalable cloud systems, and work with global teams to meet US business hours. Applicants must reside in Bengaluru and communicate in English.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience.
• Significant hands‑on production experience with AWS.
• Design, operate, and improve CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Strong Docker and containerized environments.
• Solid Linux, networking, security fundamentals.
• Observability experience with platforms like Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, or Splunk.
• Excellent English communication and cross‑functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Karat’s AWS SaaS infrastructure, ensuring security, scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI and related tooling to improve deployment safety and speed.
• Build and maintain observability capabilities with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting (Datadog preferred).
• Apply SRE principles to reliability, incident response, capacity planning, and post‑mortem learning.
• Influence engineering decisions through strong partnerships and clear communication.

Skills

DevOps/SRE

AWS experience

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Linux fundamentals

Observability

Cost optimization

English communication

Tools

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Datadog

New Relic

Dynatrace

Grafana Cloud

Splunk

Docker

Linux

AWS

Job description

We're Karat , the world's largest interviewing company.

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.

Come join our Engineeringteam

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

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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.

Additional Information

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Statement of Inclusivity

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at [e-mail] .