Software Engineer II - DevOps

Foundation team work in following areas:

• DevOps
• Developer Experience (Deployment, Dev Tools Core Libraries)
• Core Infrastructure (Scalability, Performance Optimisation)
• Security Compliance
• Engineering Processes

You ll be on a team that maintains, builds and scale infrastructure that will be used by the rest of the engineering. You ll make decisions with a significant impact on Helpshift. There is a lot of work to do to make Helpshift engineers work easier and our core infrastructure even more reliable than it is today, and we d love for you to be part of it. We re close to the people using our systems, so we constantly get feedback that we can use to make them better.

We re looking for people with a strong background in systems. We d love to hear from you whether you re a seasoned systems developer, or whether you ve just learned you might like working with databases and large scale systems.

Understand, automate and scale Helpshift cloud infrastructure. This will involve learning and working with various cloud technologies, scripting languages, and CM tools.

• Own Helpshift production services and ensure complete monitoring coverage, troubleshoot and fix production issues.
• Architect and implement projects that reduce or eliminate repetitive and administrative tasks.
• Ensure all services and infrastructure are Highly Available, with Disaster Recovery in place.
• Performance engineering for backend services and stores such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, HAProxy
• Work in a lean team, with a focus on getting things done.
• In-depth knowledge of running/managing UNIX-like operating systems (we use Ubuntu).
• Relevant experience of 5+ years and above.
• Good programming skills with focus on scripting (Python, Shell, Perl).