Buspatrol
Site Reliability Engineer
India - Hyderabad, Remote. Posted 7 days ago
The role
The Site Reliability Engineer will own availability, performance, scalability, and production readiness across services. You will drive automation, reduce toil, and enable fast, safe delivery for a mission-critical safety and automation platform.
What you will do
- Define, implement, and iterate SLIs/SLOs
- Engineer end-to-end observability leveraging Datadog
- Automate infrastructure, deployment workflows, self-healing mechanisms, and progressive delivery
- Lead incident lifecycle including detection, triage, mitigation, and post-incident reviews
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Perform capacity and performance engineering
- Reduce toil via tooling, runbooks, and chaos/fault injection
- Partner with development teams on architectural reviews and production readiness
- Enforce least-privilege, secrets management, and infrastructure security
- Improve alert quality to lower MTTR and fatigue
Required qualifications
- Strong Linux internals and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, load balancing)
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GitOps workflows
- Containers and orchestration (AWS ECS) including resource tuning and scaling strategies
- CI/CD design (pipelines, promotion strategies, automated verification, rollout / rollback)
- Full incident management lifecycle and quantitative postmortem practices
- Experience with distributed systems failure modes (latency spikes, retry storms, thundering herds)
Nice to have
- 3+ years in SRE / Production Engineering / DevOps
- Proficient in one or more: Go, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Ruby
- Production-grade observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog (preferred)
- Chaos / fault injection frameworks (AWS FIS preferred)
- Performance / load testing (k6, Locust, Gatling) and profiling for bottleneck isolation
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical expertise
About the company
BusPatrol is scaling a mission-critical safety and automation platform that evolves from a monolith into distributed, event-driven and microservice-based systems.