Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Since 2010, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Bluffcraft HQ operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month.

THE ROLE:

This is a newly created position. SRE role with a heavy software component. We expect you to write code that removes toil, not just run playbooks. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

DUTIES:

• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8-10 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.

PREFERRED:

• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale.
• Multi-region or active-active architecture.

Pay: ₹23,50,000-₹28,50,000 per annum

WHAT YOU GET:

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bluffcraft HQ Pvt Ltd.