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Karat is the world's largest interviewing company, providing technical hiring solutions to organizations like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi. The Engineering team builds infrastructure, reporting, and data products that transform interview and performance data into actionable insights.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help evolve Karat's infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices to enable engineering teams to build and run reliable software. You will establish scalable approaches to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, alerting, and operational readiness while partnering closely with software engineers to improve developer experience and strengthen reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency of the SaaS platform.
Key responsibilities:
- Own and evolve AWS SaaS infrastructure, ensuring services are secure, scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient
- Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI and related tooling to enhance deployment safety, speed, repeatability, and developer experience
- Build and maintain observability capabilities including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting using Datadog and related tools
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to define and improve service reliability, availability, performance, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational learning
- Influence engineering-wide technical decisions and delivery practices through strong partnership, practical standards, and clear communication
Note: This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours. The role is remote but currently limited to candidates residing in Bengaluru, India.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or closely related discipline
- Significant hands-on production experience with AWS (required qualification)
- Demonstrated experience designing, operating, and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platform (CircleCI strongly preferred)
- Strong experience with Docker and containerized application environments
- Strong Linux, networking, security, and cloud-infrastructure fundamentals
- Practical experience applying SRE principles to production systems, including observability, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvement
- Hands-on experience with leading telemetry and observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, or Splunk (Datadog strongly preferred)
- Experience designing useful monitoring and alerting systems that reduce noise and support effective incident response
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization
- Experience partnering with application-engineering teams to establish shared infrastructure and operational practices
- Clear written and verbal English communication skills
- Comfort working with globally distributed teams and regularly collaborating with U.S. colleagues
