Lead Software Engineer - Site Reliability
HyderabadFull-time7–12 yrsPosted over a month ago
Senior DevOps and cloud role at Freshworks in Hyderabad. Needs 7–12 years and a B.Tech, B.E. or B.Sc.
About the role
As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) , you'll be the engineer behind the curtain—designing for resilience, automating recovery, and ensuring our systems stay fast, stable, and observable at scale. You’ll partner closely with engineering, platform, and product teams to shift reliability left and set the standard for performance and availability.
What you'll do
- Design and implement tools to improve availability, latency, scalability, and system health
- Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and drive performance engineering efforts
- Build and maintain automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation pipelines
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability by design
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems
What you need
- Terraform
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- System design
Good to have
- Incident response
- Root cause analysis