SRE

Jobtailor; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior SRE/Software Engineer to strengthen our reliability engineering capabilities in a challenging, fast‑paced environment. You will lead design and debugging efforts for scalable services, implement monitoring with OpenTelemetry, and drive IaC via Terraform across GCP environments.

You will participate in on‑call rotations, write runbooks, and help optimize performance and security while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering/Math.
• “5+ years of experience as Software Engineer or similar role.”
• “Strong experience with Golang development and Terraform Provider development.”
• “Proficient with monitoring/observability tools (OpenTelemetry).”
• “Strong Kubernetes and GCP experience.”
• “Solid programming and scripting skills, following best practices.”
• “Experience with relational and document databases.”
• “Ability to debug, optimize, and automate tasks.”
• “Excellent communication skills.”

Responsibilities

• Write, configure, and deploy code to improve service reliability.
• Provide feedback and review for code and production changes.
• Drive repair/optimization of complex systems and lead debugging efforts.
• Participate in on-call rotation and develop runbooks/playbooks.
• Develop and maintain SRE tooling using Terraform and IaC.
• Work with GCP infrastructure to optimize performance and cost.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance reliability and security practices.
• Create disaster recovery plans and run drills.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and security audits.

Skills

Golang

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

GCP

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform Provider

Job description

• Write, configure, and deploy code that improves service reliability for existing or new systems; set standard for others with respect to code quality.
• Provide helpful and actionable feedback and review for code or production changes.
• Drive repair/optimization of complex systems with consideration towards a wide range of contributing factors.
• Lead debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis of service architecture and design.
• Participate in on‑call rotation.
• Write documentation: design, system analysis, runbooks, playbooks. Provide design feedback and uplevel design skills of others.
• Implement and manage SRE monitoring application backends using Golang, Postgres, and OpenTelemetry. Develop tooling using Terraform and other IaC tools to ensure visibility and proactive issue detection across our platforms.
• Work within GCP infrastructure, optimizing performance, and cost, and scaling resources to meet demand.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance, applying a platform engineering mindset to system administration tasks.
• Develop and maintain automated solutions for operational aspects such as on‑call monitoring, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
• Participate in postmortem analysis and create preventative measures for future incidents.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across our infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and internal policies. Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Participate in capacity planning and forecasting efforts to ensure our systems can handle future growth and demand. Analyze trends and make recommendations for resource allocation.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks through code profiling, system analysis, and configuration tuning. Implement and monitor performance metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of a major outage or disaster. Participate in regular disaster recovery exercises.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience with Golang development and desired familiarity with Terraform Provider development.
• Proficient with monitoring and observability tools, particularly OpenTelemetry or other tools.
• Proficient with cloud services, with a strong preference for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience.
• Solid programming skills in Golang and scripting languages, with a good understanding of software development best practices.
• Experience with relational and document databases.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Golang development, cloud services, and system reliability engineering, with a strong focus on performance optimization and security best practices. Capable of leading debugging efforts, implementing monitoring solutions, and contributing to disaster recovery planning.

Highest‑signal resume keywords

• Golang Development
• Terraform Provider Development
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• OpenTelemetry
• Kubernetes

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Development Best Practices
• Debugging
• Code Optimization
• Automating Routine Tasks
• Relational Databases
• Document Databases
• Performance Tuning
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Capacity Planning
• System Analysis

Soft Skills

• Problem‑Solving
• Communication

Industry Keywords

• Service Reliability Engineering
• Security Best Practices
• Compliance
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Postmortem Analysis

Tools & Technologies

• Monitoring Tools
• Observability Tools
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• SRE Monitoring Applications
• Documentation Tools