Principal Site Reliability Engineer

We are hiring a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Ahmedabad for a team building on SRE, Reliability, Monitoring. 10-15 years of experience.

SRE, Reliability, Monitoring, with Observability, SLOs, Metrics across the wider stack.

• 10-15 years with SRE in production.
• Hands-on depth in Reliability, Monitoring, enough to defend a decision you made in each, and name the one you rejected.
• Working familiarity with Observability, SLOs, Metrics.
• You have set technical direction that other teams built on, and have been wrong about one of those decisions in a way you can describe.
• The ability to explain a technical decision to somebody who did not make it. Every round here includes it.

Not the focus of the interview, but part of the job. Teams ask about these, so be ready to talk about them:

• Git, branching and code review as a daily habit
• One cloud provider used in anger: AWS, Azure or GCP
• CI/CD: your work reaches an environment without somebody carrying it
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation
• Linux, networking, DNS and TLS, at the level where you debug rather than restart
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and alerts that mean something
• Secrets and identity: IAM, least privilege, rotation
• Cost: knowing what your infrastructure bill is made of

Expect to be asked how you would approach a problem in each of the areas above, and why you would not take the obvious route. Then one level down on whichever answer was weakest.