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Role: Site Reliability Engineer – Backend (Java)
Mode: Hybrid (3 days/week onsite)
Duration: Full-time
Visas: USC/EAD(Only W2)
Relocation: Only Texas
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Hiring Manager note:- Strong programming skills in
Java, Python, Scala, or Go are mandatory. Additionally, candidates must have experience with
table formats and data lake technologies, specifically
Apache Iceberg.
Job Description:
Skills
- Core Java
- Advanced Java
- Advanced Java 8
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon Web Services EKS (AWS EKS)
- Kubernetes
- DevOps / SRE
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and drive large-scale migrations of business-critical services to AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms
- Define and implement GitOps-first deployment strategies using ArgoCD, with Spinnaker for advanced delivery workflows
- Design, build, and operate production-grade AWS EKS platforms at scale
- Establish best practices for CI/CD, deployment automation, and release strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)
- Design and maintain reusable Helm charts and standardized deployment patterns
- Develop and maintain Python-based tooling and automation for deployment, operations, and reliability
- Provide deep Linux systems expertise, including performance tuning, debugging, and incident mitigation
- Own and support production systems, including on-call participation, incident response, and root cause analysis
- Partner with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security into platform design
- Drive architectural reviews, author design documents, and influence long-term platform and migration roadmaps
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar for DevOps and platform engineering practices
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience as a Cloud / DevOps / Platform Engineer supporting production systems
- Proven experience leading AWS migrations for large, high-traffic, business-critical platforms
- Strong hands-on expertise with:
- Linux systems (performance tuning, networking, troubleshooting)
- Python for automation, tooling, and operational workflows
- AWS (EKS, VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, S3, RDS)
- Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments
- ArgoCD and GitOps deployment models
- Spinnaker for continuous delivery
- Helm for application packaging and release management
- Experience operating and supporting production environments with on-call responsibility
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud security
- Ability to lead through influence and collaborate across engineering disciplines
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Akamai CDN, caching strategies, and edge delivery patterns
- Experience with Redis (caching, replication, high availability)
- Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems
- Experience operating platforms at scale (hundreds of services, multi-team environments)
- Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog)
- Familiarity with SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical design documentation and executive-level discussions
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