Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.
There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.
At Freshworks, we build uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective and organizations more productive. Over 72,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks’ customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) software to fuel customer loyalty and service efficiency. And over 4,500 Freshworks employees make this possible, all around the world.
Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.
Freshservice SRE team includes expert Software and System engineers who are custodians of Availability, Scalability and Performance of the SaaS products. We build tools and frameworks to monitor, load test and sometimes build full platform features that other products' use. We undertake architecture reviews and help the individual product teams to identify performance bottlenecks. We tend to look at the application from a system perspective bottom up rather than top-down. Our engineers have the freedom to pick the challenges that they work on and own the task to completion.
Roles and Responsibilities:
● Strong software development skills in any one of the technologies (Python, Ruby, Java etc.,)
● Flag down potential performance issues at the development stage
● Provide technical assistance and ensure performance SLA are met
● Ability to derive and define NFR goals (SLIs, SLOs) and requirements
● Experience in APM/tracing tools and work collaboratively with development teams to enable quicker resolution of performance issues.
● Ability to deep-dive and find root cause for performance and scalability issues in production/non-prod environments
● Undertake system level debugging in Linux independently
● Mentor the juniors on performance engineering areas and debugging
● Collaborate and work closely with the product engineering team to share knowledge, tools, and best practices on performance engineering and scalability areas
● Knowledge on internal technologies such as load balancers, firewalls and database servers
● Broad technical and working knowledge on Kubernetes, docker, Windows, Linux,
● Prometheus, Grafana. Expert knowledge on telemetry configuration and alerting
● Bring in automation practice wherever applicable
● Experience building and scaling large-scale performance services
● Ensuring availability, scalability and resilience of our SaaS platform and services
Qualifications● 7-10 years of experience in design, development and architecture
● Experience with open-source load testing tools such as Apache JMeter, httperf etc and APM, infrastructure monitoring tools like SumoLogic, NewRelic and AppDynamics.
● Working knowledge in any one of the cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
● Software automation development skills (at least one) – Python, GO, or Java.
● Experience in working with SQL/NOSQL databases
● Passionate about performance, reliability, scalability and resilience
● A self-starter, able to architect, build, drive and advocate for Snow SRE solution
● Proven ability to work with multiple teams and multi-task and prioritising
Additional InformationAt Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.
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What We Do
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees.
We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end-user.
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a dedicated team operating from 13 global locations to serve customers throughout the world.
Why Work With Us
Our fresh approach to business software has enabled over 50,000 companies big and small across the globe to exceed customer and employee expectations. We deliver on the unfulfilled promise of easy-to-use SaaS software, and help our customers drive clear business results.
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