Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Developer) @ Freshworks

The engineer will be part of the Core DataBase as a Service team.

Build features for the Hosted DB (MySQL or Redis or NoSQL) framework help build and scale Freshworks applications and services.

Ensure availability, observability and reliability of DBaaS while optimizing performance of Freshworks applications and services.

Automate the hosted DB infrastructure, workflows and create self-service tools.

Should be willing to work as on-call support whenever needed.

Analyze solutions and help implement engineering best practices.

Lead and mentor junior engineers on technical issues. Perform blameless RCAs when issues occur and take ownership to resolve issues.

Collaborate with DBAs , application teams, and partners of Freshworks

Mentor younger engineers.

Should have 4-7 years of experience in software design, development and understanding of the architecture.

A self-starter with exposure to building and scaling large-scale performance services in a distributed production environment

Proven ability to work with multiple teams, multi-tasking and prioritising.

Strong programming and debugging skills with sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming

Have strong experience with at least one of Ruby/Python/Java/GoLang/C/C++.

Should have good working knowledge of one of the cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Experience of working on MySQL or NoSQL or Redis.

Experience on Infrastructure automation (Terraform/Ansible) and in tools like Rundeck, ProxySQL, Orchestrator is a plus.

Good technical and working knowledge of Linux environment (file systems, crons, shell scripting, debugging tools, etc.).

Should be a good Team player and fast learner.