Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer

Verve; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apollo Health Check-ups

Medical Insurance

Personalized Benefits Platform: INR 4,

Job summary

Verve is seeking a Systems Engineer to join the Systems Engineering team, focusing on a high-throughput, real-time ad-serving platform running on GCP and Kubernetes (GKE). You’ll own reliability, build tooling, and partner with backend and data teams to scale services that hold up under real-world load.

You’ll shape reliability, define SLOs, automate monitoring and incident response, and write code to reduce toil and improve resilience at scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience keeping large-scale, cloud-native production systems reliable.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE) in production, including behavior under load and failure modes.
• Practical experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Proficient in Go / Python / Rust, with good coding practices and shipping tools others depend on.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and cloud APIs.
• Observability tooling such as Grafana, VictoriaLogs, and PagerDuty.
• CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
• Experience operating databases in production.
• Good understanding of networking, event messaging, and distributed systems failure modes.
• Strong troubleshooting across stack, from Linux to application behavior.
• Full business proficiency in English.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define, measure, and uphold SLOs and error budgets for critical services, and use them to guide engineering priorities.
• Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on GCP and Kubernetes for high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.
• Build observability across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting that surfaces real user impact and reduces noise.
• Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and drive fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Reduce toil by writing tools and automation in Go, Python, or similar to replace manual work.
• Own capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost-efficiency as traffic grows.
• Collaborate with product, backend, and data teams on production readiness and safe releases.
• Participate in on-call and continuously improve its sustainability.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

GCP

Kubernetes

SLIs SLOs

Terraform

Grafana

VictoriaLogs

PagerDuty

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

English

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

VictoriaLogs

PagerDuty

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 30 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com .

Who We Are

Verve Group has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve Group is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With 13 offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve Group’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at www.verve.com .

About This Job

Verve's Systems Engineering team keeps a high-throughput, real-time ad-serving platform fast and available, running on GCP and Kubernetes (GKE) and serving traffic around the clock. We're looking for an engineer who treats reliability as a software problem, measuring it, engineering for it, and automating away whatever gets in the way.The role combines hands-on ownership of production systems with building tools and services that other engineers rely on every day. You'll define what \"reliable\" means for our services, build the observability to prove it, and write the code that keeps systems healthy at scale. When something is manual, fragile, or slow, you're the person who writes the code to fix it.You'll have real ownership: shaping how our platform evolves, making architectural calls on reliability and scalability, and working closely with backend and data teams to design services that hold up under real-world load.

What You'll Do

• Define, measure, and uphold SLOs and error budgets for critical services, and use them to guide engineering priorities
• Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on GCP and Kubernetes for high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads
• Build observability across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting that surfaces real user impact and cuts noise
• Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and drive the fixes that stop problems from recurring
• Reduce toil by writing tools, services, and automation (in Go, Python, or similar) that replace manual operational work
• Own capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost efficiency as traffic grows
• Partner with product, backend, and data teams on production readiness, resilient architecture, and safe release practices (progressive rollouts, automated rollback)
• Participate in on-call and continuously improve its sustainability

What You Will Bring

• Hands-on experience keeping large-scale, cloud-native production systems reliable
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE) in production, including how they behave under load and how they fail
• Practical experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management
• Solid software development skills in Go / Python / Rust, or similar, with good coding practices (testing, code review, maintainability) and a track record of shipping tools or services others depend on
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and cloud APIs
• Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, VictoriaLogs, and PagerDuty
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions
• Experience operating databases in production
• Good understanding of networking, event messaging, and distributed systems failure modes
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the stack, from Linux and networking up to application behavior
• Full business proficiency in English
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

What We Offer

• Just a few of the benefits waiting for you at Verve
• Keep healthy through our Apollo Health Check-ups, and stay covered with our Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Pick what matters most to you in our INR 4100/month Personalized Benefits Platform: Travel, entertainment, food, fitness, and healthcare
• Have us cover your office lunches 3 times a week through Zomato, and enjoy office sweets, snacks, and beverages
• Boost your professional knowledge with our annual training budget & internal webinars, and level up your language skills through our German/English classes
• Recharge with 19 paid vacation days + 3 Wellness days throughout the year, in addition to the public holidays
• Strengthen team connections while exploring new cultures through our monthly Work&Travel raffle, offering a chance to work from one of our global offices (after 2 years of employment)
• … and even more reasons to join us!

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