Senior Site Reliability Engineer I - Monitoring

About the role:

We are looking for someone passionate about automation, tooling, and frameworks to join our infra monitoring team. You will be part of the team that has the mandate to build infra/app monitoring system/framework and enable all projects across Careem to improve the visibility and we get insight of system events, people can define alerts and get notified in case of any incident.  

Key responsibilities include:

• Development of our distributed monitoring system to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements for our fast-growing business
• Design/Architect solutions with a focus on scalability, testability, and maintainability
• Coach, and mentor colleagues on an energetic, growing team.
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product owners, and designers to solve interesting and challenging problems across our platform
• Build and ship new features and systems, with an emphasis on code quality, maintainability, readability, and testing
• Develop, maintain, and extend a variety of systems, including open-source, ready-made, and in-house applications.
• Focus on quality and know what it means to ship high quality code. 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with monitoring systems like Prometheus , NewRelic, AppDynamic etc
• Experience in developing and debugging in one of these OOP languages, Java, Python, Bash, Go.
• Expert knowledge on Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code)
• Experience in architecture/design, developing, operating and troubleshooting highly available systems at scale
• Experience in building and owning tools for medium to large engineering teams.
• Experience of building  systems, dashboards and metrics to facilitate a data-driven approach to problem resolution.
• Strong Unix or Linux background, including topics around network stack and scripting
• Obsession about keeping costs low while building solutions.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in multi-tiered distributed systems
• Proficient in configuring, managing, and optimizing Prometheus and Thanos stack for effective monitoring.
• CICD is a plus
• Experience on EKL stack and/or Log management.
• Experience with cloud-centric application development and deployment (AWS preferred)