Senior DevOps Engineer (India)

Karat; United States; A distancia; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Karat is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to evolve the infrastructure, deployment systems, and operational practices for our hosted SaaS platform. You will own AWS SaaS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, partnering with software engineers to improve reliability and cost efficiency.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, Docker, Linux fundamentals, and experience with CircleCI or other CI/CD tools; overlap with U.S. business hours is expected.

Formación

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or related field.
• Hands-on AWS production experience required.
• Design/operate CI/CD systems with major platforms.
• Strong Linux, networking, and security fundamentals.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve Karat’s AWS SaaS infrastructure for security, scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI and related tooling) for safer, faster deployments.
• Build and maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards) and actionable alerting with Datadog.
• Apply SRE principles to improve service reliability, incident response, and operational learning.

Conocimientos

DevOps

SRE

Cloud infra

CI/CD

Docker

Linux basics

Security basics

Herramientas

AWS

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Datadog

Descripción del empleo

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 Engineering team.

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 will help 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