Karat

Senior DevOps Engineer (India)

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

Listed for India

From the employer's advert: We will not consider applications from other cities in India at this time.

Employer listed it 2 weeks ago · Added 2 weeks ago

Listed for 12 days before it closed.

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Salary

Not stated

Location

Listed for India

Timezone

APAC

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

What the advert says

Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.

Working hours: business hours.
Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related discipline
Pay: Not mentioned in the advert

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in India. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote (India - Bangalore ONLY), Remote (India)"

What Nomaders makes of it

Residency required in India
Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only

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Before you apply

Experience: employer states

Written as a nice-to-have

“Experience with CircleCI is strongly preferred”
“Datadog experience is strongly preferred”

Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation

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No pay is stated. Ask for the salary range before investing time in interviews.
The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.

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About the role

We're Karat , the world's largest interviewing company.

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian, and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world.

Come join our Engineering team

Our Engineering team builds the infrastructure, reporting, and data products that turn Karat’s unique interview and performance data into meaningful insights. We partner across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and the business to create a reliable data foundation and to improve how Karat understands, uses, and delivers data.

What you will do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you willhelp evolve the infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices that enable the Company's engineering teams to build and run reliable software. You will establish consistent, scalable approaches to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, alerting, operational readiness, and ongoing maintenance while partnering closely with software engineers to improve the developer experience while strengthening the reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency of Karat’s hosted SaaS platform.

This position requires a schedule that overlaps with U.S. business hours.

Own and evolve Karat’s AWS SaaS infrastructure, ensuring services are secure, scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.

Design, improve, and operate CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI and related tooling, improving deployment safety, speed, repeatability, and developer experience.

Build and maintain observability capabilities including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerting using Datadog and related tools.

Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to define and improve service reliability, availability, performance, capacity planning, incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational learning.

Influence engineering-wide technical decisions and delivery practices through strong partnership, practical standards, and clear communication.

The experience you will bring

Cloud, infrastructure, and delivery

5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related discipline

Significant hands-on production experience with AWS. This is a required qualification

Demonstrated experience designing, operating, and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or another major CI/CD platform. Experience with CircleCI is strongly preferred

Strong experience with Docker and containerized application environments

Strong Linux, networking, security, and cloud-infrastructure fundamentals

Reliability and operations

Practical experience applying SRE principles to production systems, including observability, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and reliability improvement

Hands-on experience with a leading telemetry and observability platform, such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, or Splunk. Datadog experience is strongly preferred

Experience designing useful monitoring and alerting systems that reduce noise, support effective incident response, and improve service ownership

Experience with cloud cost management and optimization, including the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs among cost, reliability, performance, and engineering velocity