Site Reliability Engineer

Clarisights is hiring exceptional software engineers at every level of experience. Our engineering team solves challenging, complex problems that you will find nowhere else. These solutions help us deliver success to our growing list of world-class customers such as Uber, Delivery Hero, Hello Fresh, Universal Music Group and Glovo.

We are building a world-class team of engineers who think like entrepreneurs . Our engineers take pride in the challenge of their work, the quality of their peers and the impact of their products. Some recent projects delivered by our engineers include:

• A JIT compiler for Excel-like formulae

• Two HTAP Database engines for our custom data model

• A small operating system for data processing pipelines that we are currently building and hiring for

You can watch a video on what SRE is like at Clarisights and read the latest blog post from our Engineering team .

As an SRE, you will focus on architecting and building the infrastructure on top of which all the engineering processes and technology at Clarisights will be built. You'll focus on aspects like infrastructure efficiency, reliability, scaling, visibility, automation and security. You'll build and own the practices, the technologies and the direction that the infrastructure team takes at Clarisights. You'll be a mentor, a visionary and an architect for infrastructure at Clarisights.

We are particularly keen to hire applicants with 3 to 12 years of experience, particularly those who have experience in the building, lead design and development of large-scale distributed systems from scratch.

What do we mean by exceptional

• We are looking for someone who obsesses over reliability, scale, efficiency, automation and security, with the curiosity to dive into unchartered territories and the perseverance to solve the hardest problems. You should:

• Have experience in building software deployment pipelines

• Have working exposure to existing big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, etc

• Have a deep understanding of Von Neumann architecture, performance characteristics of CPU, Memory and IO devices

• Have experience in navigating the complexity of large codebases and improving them through refactoring and/or rewrite

• Have experience with container orchestration systems and runtimes like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

• Have expert knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux OS

• Have a working knowledge of relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL etc

• Possess a deep understanding of firewalls, access control mechanisms and security best practices in software systems, and growing organizations

• Be comfortable with ambiguity, lack of information and exploration in unknown territories when working with existing systems

• Possess a creative problem-solving mindset to find solutions to difficult problems in a resource and time-constrained environment

• Should be a quick learner and have experience working in a fast-moving environment

• Have experience with quick prototyping and building Proof of Concept systems.

• Experienced in mentoring and managing small teams

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Work with different engineering teams to understand and evaluate their requirements

• Design, prototype, build and maintain different infrastructure components and services

• Build an infrastructure for highly reliable applications operating at scale

• Initiate and promote DevOps best practices through the engineering organization

• Evaluate current tooling and find efficiency, usability and performance gaps in the system

• Evaluate current codebase, infrastructure services, system software and hardware for possible efficiency and performance wins

• Manage infrastructure, tooling and automation for deployment and maintenance of services and components used and built by other engineering teams

• Work on the redesign, refactor and reimplementation of existing complex codebase and components pertaining to infrastructure at Clarisights

• Evaluate and improve the security aspect of different components built and used at Clarisights

• Implement proper accounting infrastructure to evaluate the cost and resource footprint of different services and components used at Clarisights

• Contribute to or develop from scratch relevant open-source software needed to maintain and scale engineering at Clarisights

• Lead a team of infrastructure engineers to define best practices and technologies used by the team

• Foster a world-class SRE and DevOps culture at Clarisights

• Work on existing cross-functional technologies and distributed systems like Kubernetes, Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, Airflow, Redis, Apache Ignite, tooling for different programming languages, compilers etc.

What we offer

• Ownership . You wont be delegated tasks. You will be given ownership and accountability of outcomes and all the support you need. It is your task to figure out how to remove roadblocks and reach desired outcomes.

• Learning . We are just getting started and you will have a unique vantage point on how to build a company with a very strong product and massive customer demand. You will probably learn more than you ever thought in the process. These learnings are most likely the most valuable thing we can offer. Curious people thrive at Clarisights.

• Meaning. At Clarisights your work matters. It has consequences. Our engineers work on projects that are unique in vision and unsurpassed in scale. Our talent team is building a world-class team across every function. And our SSMs are more than just advocating for a product: they are changing the way companies work with data.

• Wealth. We pay competitive salaries and offer generous equity. And were building a workplace that is low-anxiety, light-management, high-impact and collegial. We want people to do good work, with great people in a kind environment.