Site Reliability Engineer 2

  • Full-time

Company Description

About Us

slice, feel easy with money.

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on providing the best consumer experience. We believe that the best product will always transcend customer demographics, like how great music touches most of us. slice app brings a fast and simple way to make payments and access credit with its cornerstone products: slice account, slice UPI, and slice borrow.

At slice, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant and positive impact on people's lives with your career. Today, we have employees with an average age of 26, sharing the same belief in innovation, self-motivation, and happiness. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We are also backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

We believe in equality. Period.

At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by the applicable law.

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Come join our crew!

Job Description

About the team
Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you’ve opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we’re trying to build a world class product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ‘;’ in your code, they got your back till the code runs successfully.

About the role
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us build functional systems that improve customer experience. The responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately and securely.


What you will do

  • Design cloud solutions that ensure secure, sustainable, flexible and cost appropriate solutions.

  • Ensure successful execution of IT strategies, architecture guidelines, and standards and guide project teams through the technology selection and architecture/security governance processes 

  • Manage and maintain the Cloud DevOps pipeline and work with dev teams. Look for opportunities to optimize and enable consistent automated deployments. 

  • Define new patterns and standards as required. 

  • Lead technology evaluations and implementations to fill gaps in the Technology Architecture. 

  • Monitor standards/policy compliance by developing and executing governance processes and tools. 

  • Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to others, and promote open culture and DevOps. 

  • Model a culture that improves the organization's comfort with the speed of change, challenging assumptions, relentless pursuit of improvement - all with a high sense of personal accountability.

  • Participate in incident response and post-mortem activities to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.

  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions.

  • Automate deployment, configuration, and monitoring processes to streamline operations and increase efficiency.

  • Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability issues, and security vulnerabilities.

 

 

Qualifications

Basic Qualification:

  • 4+ years of experience in the field 

  • Solid understanding of networking protocols like HTTPS, DNS, TCP/IP 

  • Solid understanding and hands-on experience with AWS/GCP 

  • Detailed understanding of Linux

  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes

  • Expertise in one or more web server technologies (nginx, Apache, etc.)

  • Expertise in shell scripting (python/Ruby will be good to have)

  • Expertise in GIT and Terraform

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience in managing full application stacks, from configuring OS up through custom applications.

  • Programming experience (Bash/Python/Go) 

  • Thorough understanding of Networking technologies. 

  • Solid understanding of monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

  • Knowledge of database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

Additional Information

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

  • Competitive salaries. Period. 
  • An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependants. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. 

  • Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. 

  • Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.    

  • A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.  

  • Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. 

  • Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.