Platform Engineer III - Hevo Data

Job Title: Platform Engineer III
Job Location: Bangalore, India
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/hevodata/8c21878b-cfd8-4e4f-99b9-c787f69b4d4e
Job Description: About Hevo:

At Hevo, we are changing the way companies leverage data to drive user experience, growth, and business processes.

There has been a fundamental change in the amount of data companies are generating on a day-to-day basis. More and more users in an organization are now looking to use data to drive business decisions. Data is no longer a second-class citizen and companies are seeing data as a competitive advantage. We see this change and we are on a mission to change the way companies leverage their data.

With a technology platform processing more than 100 billion records a month and doubling itself every 6 months, Hevo is poised for exponential growth in the coming future. This position provides a unique opportunity to create a massive impact on all existing and future customers of Hevo through technology innovation.

We are looking for people who believe in challenging the status quo and are ready to be a part of this change. If you are the one who is looking to take a leap of faith and work on the technology of the future, if you obsess over customer satisfaction and experience then we are looking for you.
What we do:
We implement high throughput data pipelines using Kafka and Java.
We build the world's prettiest and most intuitive user interfaces using React, Angular, Typescript, and other OSS libraries.
We use a variety of other Open Source technologies including MySQL, Redis, RocksDB, InfluxDB, and more.
We write reusable, efficient, and highly concurrent code. We are proud of the technology we build but we are not dogmatic about our techniques.
We frequently re-evaluate our decisions and proactively make improvements to avoid last-minute chaos.
What you’ll be doing:
Work on highly maintainable and scalable components/systems/infra.
Develop good, and effective tools and scripts to optimize or eliminate manual processes; improve overall system reliability.
Participate in on-call rotation & and debugging during outages.
Actively work on own learning and development, on tech as well as product side.
Exhibit ownership & accountability when it comes to timelines, system uptime, and production SLA.
Data-driven - collect & build metrics for the system, infra, platform, and business.
Mentoring and guiding the team members.
Exhibit ownership and leadership skills required to become an indispensable part of the engineering team and culture.
Key Requirements:
5-8 years of experience in building scalable, highly critical distributed systems.
B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
Excellent programming skills in Python, Go or Ruby or any other popular language. Shell scripting is de facto.
Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
Strong in Networking (triaging, packet loss, routing, protocols, TCP/IP stack), OS and Docker / Containerization.
Experience in working on Distributed Systems with deep knowledge of fundamental principles (architectures, micro-services, high-availability, elections).
Thorough understanding of cloud service delivery (DevOps) infrastructure ecosystem, operational processes, and orchestration models, specifically AWS.
Hands on experience with building large, scalable CI/CD systems.
Excellent skills in investigating and troubleshooting complicated systems/platforms, and identifying key points of failure.
Monitoring & Logging best practices.
Experience in configuration/infra provisioning management systems, specifically Ansible, Terraform.