Straatix Partners

🚀 Your Role at a Glance

We are hiring a Senior Staff Backend Engineer – Site Reliability for our client (Code Name: SORIN), a global leader building high-scale observability platforms. In this high-impact leadership role, you’ll architect, scale, and optimise the systems that drive how enterprises monitor their distributed applications. You’ll collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of mission-critical backend services in a modern cloud-native environment.

This role is ideal for experienced backend engineers who thrive in distributed systems, care deeply about system performance and observability, and want to influence large-scale technical decisions that span multiple teams.

🏢 About the Client (Code Name: SORIN)

Our client is a global enterprise software company focused on simplifying IT management through powerful, secure, and scalable platforms. With a strong commitment to innovation and customer-centricity, they help organisations accelerate digital transformation across observability, incident response, and performance monitoring. You’ll join a team of passionate engineers working on critical systems trusted by Fortune 500 companies and growing SaaS-first businesses alike.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

● Collaborate with software engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements, drive best practices in reliability, monitoring, incident response, and automation, ensuring seamless integration and optimal

performance of applications and systems

● Lead and mentor a team of SREs, providing technical guidance and

support to ensure the ongoing reliability and performance of our systems

● Play a key role in driving the automation, tools, and observability initiatives, assuming ownership of designing and implementing scalable and efficient solutions.

● Leading the response to production incidents, conducting comprehensive learning reviews, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and actively participating in an on-call rotation, fostering a culture of learning, resilience, and ongoing enhancement within our systems.

● Establish and drive operations performance through SLOs

● Demonstrate proficiency in technical skills, exhibit an expert-level understanding of relevant technologies and tools, and use this knowledge to mentor and support team members, helping them improve their skills and succeed in their roles.

✅ Required Skills & Experience

● At least 10 + years of experience designing, building & maintaining SAAS environments

● 8+ years of experience designing, building & maintaining AWS/AZURE infrastructure with Terraform

● 5+ years of experience building and running Kubernetes clusters

● Strong experience working with data platform infrastructure.

● Experience with coding in a high-level programming language like Python, Go (Golang). Knowledge of writing shell scripts, SQL queries.

● Experience with observability (monitoring – logging, tracing, metrics)

● Experience with SQL/NoSQL database technologies.

● Experience with GitOps and CI/CD processes is a plus

● Experience with security operations – security policies, infrastructure, key management, setup of encryption at rest and transport.

● Experience in mentoring and fostering the professional development of team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.

🌟 Nice to Have

● Strong customer orientation

● Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills

● Attention to detail and focus on quality

● Strong communication skills to effectively liaise with both technical and non-technical staff

● Ability to act decisively and work well under pressure

● Must be a collaborative problem solver

● Strong bias for ownership and action

💡 Why Join This Role

● Architect foundational systems for one of the world’s most trusted observability platforms

● Join a fast-paced, mission-driven team with global reach

● Collaborate with senior leaders and contribute to technology direction across the company

● Drive innovation in how modern engineering teams monitor and respond to incidents

● Competitive compensation, strong engineering culture, and direct influence on product direction

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🔍 Your Experience at a Glance

We are hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer – Marketplace (React) for our client (Code Name: SORIN), a global leader in enterprise-grade observability and AIOps software.

This is a high-impact role focused on designing and building the frontend architecture of a new, cutting-edge marketplace platform within a cloud-native observability ecosystem. You’ll lead UI strategy and execution for an e-commerce-style user experience used by developers and platform operators worldwide.

You will work closely with a tight-knit team of 4–5 engineers, backend

developers, and product stakeholders to deliver a fast, intuitive, and scalable marketplace—integrating payment flows, secure access, and seamless navigation across internal and external services.

💻 Key Responsibilities

🔧 UI Architecture & Development

● Define and implement a scalable frontend architecture using React and modern state management (Redux, Context API, etc.)

● Build reusable, component-driven UIs with React (and TypeScript preferred) that are performant and accessible

● Integrate seamlessly with RESTful or GraphQL APIs for robust data handling and error management

🚀 Performance & Reliability

● Implement best practices for performance optimization: code splitting, caching, lazy loading, etc.

● Monitor and enhance production frontend performance using tools like Lighthouse, Chrome DevTools, and analytics platforms

● Champion frontend observability and real-user monitoring (RUM), ensuring reliability at scale

🛒 Marketplace Experience

● Design and implement workflows for product discovery, purchase, and

SKU management

● Incorporate secure payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal, etc.) and

compliant checkout experiences

● Continuously improve the user journey based on metrics, user feedback, and product roadmap

🎯 Technical Leadership & Mentorship

● Provide architectural guidance and best practices to other frontend developers

● Conduct code reviews, lead UI quality initiatives, and support accessibility efforts (WCAG compliance)

● Collaborate with backend, DevOps, Product, and UX teams for end-to-end feature delivery

✅ Must-Have Skills & Experience

● 5+ years of experience in frontend or full-stack development with a focus on React

● Deep understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend tooling (Webpack, Babel, etc.)

● Strong grasp of state management libraries (Redux, MobX, Context)

● Proven ability to build and scale React apps with performance in mind

● Experience in building checkout flows or subscription-based interfaces

● Comfortable integrating secure payment gateways and ensuring

frontend security

● Excellent collaboration skills in cross-functional and Agile teams

● Experience mentoring junior engineers and driving frontend architectural decisions

⭐ Bonus Skills & Good-to-Have

● Working knowledge of TypeScript or other typed languages

● Familiarity with cloud-native observability principles (e.g., tracing, logs, AIOps)

● Experience with design systems, component libraries, and accessible UI practices

● Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, frontend environment setup, and deployment strategies

● Experience working with e-commerce or SaaS marketplaces

🧠 Why This Role Matters

This role gives you the opportunity to define and lead the UI direction of a next-generation platform that combines observability and e-commerce. You’ll shape how thousands of developers and customers interact with one of the most important pieces of our client’s evolving ecosystem. If you're passionate about frontend excellence, user-centric product development, and working at the intersection of technology and design, this is your chance to make a global impact.

📘 About the Employment Model – Direct Employment

You will be hired directly by the client (Code Name: SORIN) and be part of their core product team in India. All aspects of your employment — including title, responsibilities, compensation, and performance review — will be directly managed by the client. Straatix is supporting the client in identifying and onboarding top-tier talent for this role.

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