Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Designs, manages, and maintains Truecaller’s infrastructure for performance, reliability, and scalability, focusing on cloud services, Kubernetes, and observability tools to support global communication safety.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bangalore
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Extensive knowledge of system administration on Linux environments, preferably high throughput and low latency systems
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (networking, IAM, compute, storage, Kubernetes)
- Extensive knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent understanding of distributed system design across process and site boundaries
- Hands-on experience with service orchestration, configuration management, and automation
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes (deploying, scaling, monitoring clusters)
- Experience with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, etc.)
- Practical experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and improving system reliability
- Knowledge of cloud security, secrets management, and compliance basics
- Good understanding of software development lifecycle, CI/CD, and deployment processes
Nice to have
- Experience developing Kubernetes operators
- Experience deploying and scaling Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Memcached
- Go programming language experience or willingness to learn
Full description
Join Truecaller – The place where innovation meets impact!
Truecaller's mission is to build trust in communication by making it safer, smarter, and more efficient. Born in Sweden, trusted by the world, and here’s why we stand out:
- We are trusted by over 500 million active users every month across 190+ countries
- We identify over 15 billion calls daily, helping users avoid spam and scams
- We are powered by a team of 400+ employees from 45+ nationalities
We always look for people who take initiative, own their work, and keep raising the bar. An entrepreneurial mindset matters here, especially when it turns bold ideas into real actions. We stay collaborative and focused, always searching for smarter paths forward. If you want to make an impact and grow with a team that inspires millions, you’ll fit right in.
The role:
You will design, manage and maintain infrastructure services over the course of their lifecycle. You will be responsible for building and improving the performance, reliability, availability, security, and evolution of the Truecaller infrastructure.
What you’ll do:
- Building tooling to ease the provisioning and scaling of infrastructure resources.
- Continuously improve and scale infrastructure components to handle growth.
- Improve overall systems performance and investigate failures taking part actively in future improvements discussion.
- Ensure systems availability, reachability, and maintainability building the necessary instrumentation, tooling, and alarming systems in order to escalate abnormalities.
- Being influential in monitoring and capacity planning together with the application development teams and in alignment with the business goals.
What you bring in:
- Extensive knowledge of system administration on Linux environments, preferably working on high throughput and low latency systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (or transferable AWS/Azure skills) — networking, IAM, compute, storage, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS).
- Extensive knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent understanding of distributed system design across process and site boundaries.
- Hands-on experience with service orchestration, management, deployment activities, configuration management and all necessary automation.
- Strong grasp of process isolation and containerization concepts, being able to apply them when necessary.
- Container orchestration: Deep understanding of Kubernetes — deploying, scaling, monitoring clusters.