Bengaluru
About Us
Sense is a diverse, collaborative team tackling one of the most universal challenges in todayʼs workforce. With a mission to change the way companies engage with talent, weʼre creating a better experience for employers, recruiters, and candidates. Your work at Sense will impact millions of people around the globe and will be instrumental in evolving an entire industry. Join us in shaping the workforce of the future!
Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS startup with offices in the Bay Area and Bangalore. It has 300+ team members, serves 700+ customers, and has grown 100% year-over-year since launch. We have raised $90M in funding, backed by GV (Google), SoftBank, Accel, and Avataar Ventures.
As a part of the Sense team, youʼll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. By working with them, you will have the front row seat to see how a company grows and scales. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities.
We care deeply about the success of our customers and strive to help them achieve their goals in inspiring and engaging with their workforce.
Job Description
Sense is seeking a passionate
Hands-On Senior Engineer in ou SRE team, with the focus on improving development efficiency and productivity.
As part of the SRE team you will be owning and managing the infrastructure (Compute, Network, Storage, Security, Databases, AWS Cloud Services, etc) that power Sense Application and Services.
Responsibilities
- Devise solutions that address performance, scale and architectural issues that arise as the Business and Engineering complexity grows.
- Heavy focus on automating all aspects of Cloud Operations, such as Infrastructure (IAC), Monitoring & Alerting, Performance Insights, Infra Costs optimisations, and so on.
- Ensure monitoring coverage of all Production services, with a focus on actions that result in long-term remediation.
- Manage On call rotation to monitor and address critical issues in production, handle escalations.
- Ensure to maintain/meet the SLA/SLO and KPI’s for infrastructure and services.
- Manage ITIL process and its lifecycle for Infrastructure operations.
- Manage & maintain DevOps & SRE infrastructure and services.
- Manage & maintain Observability platform.
- Being able to own a project end-to-end while being proactive about updates/blockers, with getting things done (GTD) attitude.
- Responsible for overall health & wellness of applications & services.
- Manage day to day operational tickets, queues and sprint planning.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement new tools and technologies to support engineering efficiency.
- Foster collaboration between other engineering teams and work senior leadership for planning & execution.
- Capable of multi-tasking and be willing to adapt to changes quickly in a startup environment
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering organization.
Requirements
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment (startup’s)
- 4+ years of strong Hands-On experience in managing & developing infrastructure automation.
- 5+ years of strong Hands-On experience in AWS cloud technology and best practices.
- Strong experience in SRE Observability platforms & principles.
- Strong expertise in developing & reviewing Python scripts for Automation in production environments.
- Proven track record of identifying and implementing solutions to improve engineering efficiency.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong experience in managing production incidents, changes and postmortems.
- Strong experience in Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins
- Experience in administering and maintaining Linux systems serving Production workloads, with strong focus on networking and system fundamentals.
- Expert in Docker Container technology.
- Strong experience in EKS or Kubernetes technology.
- Strong experience in building and managing Metrics & Log aggregation solutions/platforms.
- Experience in Infrastructure security tools and vulnerability mitigation.
- Experience in performance troubleshooting for applications & services.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6 to 8 years of overall experience in IT.
- 4+ years of strong Hands-On experience in SRE is a must.
- 5+ years of strong Hands-On experience in AWS cloud is a must.
- Experience in managing public SaaS infrastructure & services is plus.
