Site Reliability Engineer

Clarisights is on the hunt for outstanding Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with a strong software engineering background. Our engineering team tackles intricate and unique challenges that drive the success of our world-class customers like Uber, Delivery Hero, Hello Fresh, Universal Music Group, and Glovo.

We are building a top-tier team of engineers who are entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, and passionate about the reliability and performance of cutting-edge systems. Recent projects by our team include:

• Developing a JIT compiler for Excel-like formulae.

• Building two HTAP Database engines for our custom data models.

• Creating a small operating system for data processing pipelines.

You can explore what Engineering at Clarisights is like through our video and read our latest blog post for insights from our engineering team. Dive into 5 Lessons in 5 Years as CTO of a Start-Up for more context on our engineering philosophy.

Technologies We Use

React.js, Redux, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Spark, Scala, Elixir, Kubernetes, Graphite, Redis, Python.

What We’re Looking For

We are eager to speak with SREs who are not just looking for a role but are excited about shaping their position to match their aspirations and our evolving needs. We seek professionals with 4 to 8 years of experience who embody the following qualities:

• Exceptional Engineering Skills: You should have strong programming skills and experience in software engineering principles. Enthusiasm for coding and problem-solving is a must.

• Reliability and Performance Focus: A deep understanding of maintaining and improving system reliability, performance, and scalability. Experience with monitoring, incident response, and system optimization is essential.

• Engineering and Operations Expertise: Proficiency in managing large-scale distributed systems and familiarity with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services.

• Problem-Solving and Innovation: A hacker mentality with the ability to tackle complex problems, iterate on solutions, and innovate to improve system reliability and user experiences.

• Self-Management and Transparency: Ability to manage your time, tools, and projects with self-awareness and openness. We support you with feedback and tools to grow but value independence and responsibility.

• Collaborative and Positive Attitude: You will work in small, cross-functional teams, so a collaborative and optimistic approach is crucial.

• Continuous Learning: A willingness to stay updated with the latest industry practices and technologies, and a readiness to learn new things outside your usual scope.

• Adaptability: You should have strong opinions but be open to evolving your views when necessary.

What you will do ?

• Enhance System Reliability: Focus on redesigning and rebuilding our systems to ensure they are robust, scalable, and ready for future growth.

• Improve User Experience: Translate advanced reliability practices into seamless, reliable product experiences for our users, evolving from basic tools to advanced, interactive data workspaces.

• Build and Maintain Systems: Develop, maintain, and improve systems and subsystems related to infrastructure, ETL automation, and data processing.

• Collaborate on Solutions: Work closely with our Customer Success and Solutions Engineering teams to address and solve emerging customer challenges.

• Innovate and Implement: Adopt and develop engineering solutions that help Clarisights enhance current offerings and explore new business verticals.

• Explore and Learn: Draw inspiration from industry leaders like Snowflake, Notion, Grafana, and Tableau to drive innovation and build state-of-the-art technology.

What we offer 🌟

• Ownership. You won’t 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 we’re 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.

Good to Know

Location: We are currently hiring Site Reliability Engineers in Bangalore.

Hiring Process and Timeline: We aim to close the Site Reliability hiring process in 2-3 weeks from application to offer. The hiring process takes place in 4 stages, each of which is filtered:

1. Culture and Fit Interview: Over a 30-minute call we will outline the opportunity, review your work experience and look for signs and evidence of culture fit.

2. Tech Round 1: It will cover the CS fundamentals (Distributed Systems knowledge, Linux knowledge etc.)

3. Tech Round 2: This round will be a deep-tech round.

4. Offer and Closing: Finally you will meet a member of the talent team to close on your compensation details and date of joining. Welcome to Clarisights!

We welcome people of all backgrounds, genders, and orientations to apply to this position.