Job Description

Company Vision
We are making finance simple. For millions in India.
Groww is on a mission to democratize access to financial services for millions of Indians responsibly. We are a customer-first company. We believe in crafting the best and most delightful user experience for our customers. And we leverage first principle thinking and technology to solve problems at scale. If this excites you, join us.
About Groww
Groww is India’s fastest growing investment platform.. Our long term vision to become the trusted money partner of ~100M Indians with core products in investment & banking. Groww was founded in 2016 by alums from Flipkart, ICICI, IITB, IITD, BITs Pilani and is backed by marquee investors like Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Captial, and Y Combinator.
Our Values
We take pride in our values and hold ourselves to a high standard on:

• Radical customer centricity
• Simplicity in our products and personalities
• Transparency on everything
• Long term thinking
• Ownership driven culture

Job Requirement

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to support application development, infrastructure and security from the start by automating workflows to keep the DevOps workflow from slowing down. The ideal individual should have the mindset of DevOps with built-in security, not security that functions as a perimeter around apps and data. The candidate will work closely with Architect, quality assurance and development teams throughout the application lifecycle to achieve application availability, scalability and operational effectiveness in the most secure way aligned with automation. The position also offers to achieve & maintain the uptime, performance and scalability of very low latency and high traffic apps hosted on microservice platforms. The candidate will work with the cutting edge technology leveraging Containers, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Saltstack, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Elastic Search, GitLab, MySQL, Scylla, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Loki etc
Roles and Responsibilities

• Bridging the gaps b/w core infra, security, QA and development team.
• Owning the end-to-end Availability, Performance, Capacity of applications and their infrastructure and creating/maintaining the respective observability with Prometheus/New Relic/ELK/Loki.
• Providing 24X7 infra & app support, building processes and documenting “tribal” knowledge around the same time.
• Mentor and train L1 engineers and continually improve app and infra support processes.
• Managing application deployment & GKE platforms - automate and improve development and release processes.
• Creating, managing and maintaining datastores & data platform infra using IaC.
• Owning and onboarding new applications with the production readiness review process.
• Managing the SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts and performing root cause analysis for production errors.
• Working with Core Infra, Dev and Product teams to define SLO/Error Budgets/Alerts.
• Working with the Dev team to have an in-depth understanding of the application architecture and its bottlenecks.
• Identifying observability gaps in application & infrastructure and working with stakeholders to fix them.
• Managing outages and doing detailed RCA with developers and identifying ways to avoid that situation.
• Automate toil and repetitive work.

Experience & Skills

• 6+ Years of experience in managing high traffic, large scale microservices and infrastructure with excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in troubleshooting, managing and deploying containerized environments using Docker/containerd, Kubernetes is a must.
• Must be proficient with the helm with experience in service mesh like Istio, Linkerd.
• Must be very hands-on in managing and troubleshooting the Kubernetes environment.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and a good understanding of the various Linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc).
• Extensive experience in DNS, TCP/IP, UDP, GRPC, Routing and Load Balancing.
• Expertise in GitOps, Infrastructure as a Code tool such as Terraform etc.. and Configuration Management Tools such as Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, Ansible.
• Expertise in Google Cloud (GCP) and/or other relevant Cloud Infrastructure solutions like AWS or Azure.
• Experience in building the CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Spinnaker, Argo etc.
• Experience with multiple datastores is a plus (Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Must be good in any of the DevOps scripting languages - python or go.
• A collaborative spirit with the ability to work across disciplines to influence, learn and deliver.
• A deep understanding of computer science, software development, and networking principles.