At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and business.

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. More than 50,000 companies use Freshworks SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM). Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a dedicated global team operating from 13 locations to serve our customers throughout the world.

Freshworks has received numerous accolades ranking #16 on the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 and #22 on the Battery Ventures/Glassdoor Best Places to Work lists.

Overview of the Role :

About the Team

At Freshworks we are building next gen CRM, Support & IT Automation, Sales & Marketing SaaS products/services & related platform/Foundation-services - for the Small and Mid-market customers across the globe.

We have about 32K+ customers (Small/Medium size Organizations) across 140 countries, with ~10 SaaS product offerings. We also deal with 20TB of logs/day – where we have some really cool and interesting problems to solve with our Search / Relevance Engineering.

We deal with ~1B Messages with ~300K/Min and ~5B conversations with ~6M/Day – where our Chat, Bot and Messaging solutions have to deal with competing with the best in the world. On Data Engineering and Analytics side we have some complex problems to solve with the rate at which we are growing in dealing with challenges like ~5M Db Reads/min, ~700K reqs/Min, 600M users and pushing the limits of Cloud Services

The Freshworks (FW) Engineering Platforms today, broadly serves as a key stakeholder to the FW product teams, developers and the customers. The Freshworks platform enables developers, partners, and customers to customize, integrate, and automate business workflows for support, CRM, and IT use cases. The very purpose of the FW Platforms team is to build efficiency, bring in agility into product development, enable services to scale and improve performance, and thereby provide a seamless experience to our customers. In order to achieve this, the Platforms teams work very closely with our internal stakeholders and align to their goals - the Product teams, the Customer facing teams(Sales, Customer Success, Onboarding teams). Some of the key themes include providing a “Unified Freshworks Experience”, being mid-market ready and providing smart analytics. This group is looking for a Lead Systems Engineer who is a very optimised solution oriented with a vision of the impact of the code in the overall software development life cycle.

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer - Systems, you will focus on building next-generation platform services for Freshworks with your strong background in distributed systems and mentor your team to achieve this.You will have an opportunity to redefine customer experiences by building systems that are milli-second efficient, always available and working at internet scale. If you are the kind of engineer who is passionate about building systems, has a good eye for analysis and a mind that can think outside the box, we want to talk to you.

Our System engineers build the APIs / Services / Features to support these complex scenarios and seamlessly scale and perform for current and future rapid growth we are experiencing. We work in solving some of the problems as common platform/foundation-services engineering where we take on problems across products from building SSO, Containerization, Reliable deployment working in Agile mode.

Our engineering takes pride in delivering some inspiring and fresh experiences for our customers and their business/customers. As a Systems Engineer you will design and implement multi-tier (DB, services, and the web) software applications, and document, test, fix and enhance systems when needed. In your agile team, you will closely work with engineers, architects, managers, design, QA and operations teams, and create solutions that meet business requirements.

You will spend most of your time developing clean code with limited abstraction. You will also be implementing and supporting compliance to Freshworks compliance and information security processes.

Do you wanna take on solving some cool and complex Distributed-Systems/Big-Data problems at scale? Apply Now! Responsibilities

Design and implement engineering solutions in code Testing and validation of your code Deployment of your system Review your peers' code You will be responsible for identifying and resolving problems in your services for eg by using better algorithms better frameworks alternative technologies You will be working on high scale systems Ensure high availability and uptime of your production systems Identify areas of improvement for your systems and come up with execution plans for the same Collaborating with other teams in the company

Must haves

3-6 years of Experience.

hould have a good knowledge of OOPS concepts.

Must be comfortable with Design Patterns and SOLID principles Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD. Expertise in one or more programming languages like Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, Golang Good understanding of data structures

Good understanding of HTTP and REST principles

Must have experience with Inter-Process Communication — this can be Unix IPC, SOAP Web Services, or microservices.

Experience dealing with XML/JSON/YAML data Experience handling Production workloads Devops knowledge Good RDBMS knowledge Experience in Agile methodologies CI/CD experience Experience using git for source code management Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Good to have

Strong design skills

Good understanding of multithreading and concurrency primitives

Knowledge of Java and web frameworks like Spring Boot Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Experience handling Production workloads, with experience handling production issues Ability to breakdown a problem Cloud/SaaS experience

Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, OracleDB

Experience with NoSQL technologies like Mongo, CassandraDB, DynamoDB

Deep knowledge of Java, a plus

Coding - Datastructures, Algorithms, System Design, Distributed Systems, AWS, Devops, C/CD, Maintenance, Bug fixes, Performance Engineering

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.