Senior Member of Technical Staff (Cloud)

About the Role:

Our team is responsible for building the backend components of MLOps plaBorm on AWS.

The backend components we build are the fundamental blocks for feature engineering,

feature serving, model deployment and model inference in both batch and online modes.

What you’ll do here

•Design & build backend components of our MLOps plaBormon AWS.

•Collaborate with geographically distributed cross-funcMonal teams.

•ParMcipate in on-call rotaMon with the rest of the team to handle producMon incidents.

What you’ll need to succeed

Must have skills:

•At least 8+ years ofprofessionalbackend web development experience with Python.

•Experiencewith web development frameworks such as Flask, Django or FastAPI.

•Experience working with WSGI & ASGI web serverssuch as Gunicorn, Uvicornetc.

•Experience with concurrent programming designs such as AsyncIO.

•Experience withunit and funcMonal tesMng frameworks.

•Experience with any of the public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, preferably AWS.

•Experience with CI/CD practices, tools,and frameworks.

Nice to have skills:

•Experience with Apache KaYa and developing KaYa client applicaMons in Python.

•Experience with MLOps plaBorms such as AWS Sagemaker, Kubeflow or MLflow.

•Experience with big data processing frameworks, preferably Apache Spark.

•Experience with containers(Docker)andcontainer plaBorms likeAWS ECSor AWS EKS.

•Experience with DevOps & IaC tools such as Terraform, Jenkinsetc.

•Experience with various Python packaging opMons such as Wheel, PEX or Conda.

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a Tech Lead/Principal SDE, you'll be leading the engineering team for the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product on our platform. You will be the owner of the product and would require a unique balance between hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support.

You would be ensuring technical excellence, innovation, and alignment within your team. Drive feature design, ensuring regular releases, system optimization, and mentorship while shaping our overall tech strategy along with the Technical Program Manager (TPM).

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders & TPM directly. You will be leading the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product on our platform.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Specialization in Technology: Act as the go-to person for specific technologies and proactively learn new ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Technical Architecture: Create the technical architecture for the product, and keep evolving it to meet future requirements, defining and ensuring adherence to SLAs. Focus on reducing technical debt within the product.
• Ownership and Monitoring: Take ownership of production operations, releases, ensuring system uptime, and being mindful of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Hands-On Coding: Engage in hands-on coding activities, contributing 30% to 70% of your time to development tasks.
• Be like Yoda: The wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate team members, providing constructive feedback, and facilitate productive discussions.
• Process Adjustment: Adapt and refine team processes based on feedback, guiding the team through necessary changes.
• Technology Evangelism: Research, create proofs of concept, and introduce innovative technologies to the team.
• Process Definition: Define and implement appropriate processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
• Company-wide Impact: Contribute to the overall tech organization, influencing its direction and strategies.

Role Expectations:

• Quarterly Co-working: You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.
• Architecture and Integration: Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Tech Mentoring and Alignment: Mentor team members, drive technology adoption, and ensure alignment with company goals.
• Technical Experiments: Conduct technical experiments, and drive innovation within the team.
• Code Reviews and Feedback: Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• System Design Presentations: Present and communicate system designs effectively within the team and to stakeholders.
• Technical Capacity Planning: Plan and forecast technical resource requirements, contributing to hiring decisions.
• Production Issue Management: Manage and escalate production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime. What you build is what you own.
• System SLAs and Monitoring: Define and monitor system SLAs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Product Direction and Practices: Define product direction & roadmap, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate with other Tech leads, Technical Program Manager, Product manager, leadership to ensure alignment and synergy
• Development Process Improvement: Continuously improve the development process, promoting efficiency and quality.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Strong product & development background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable (as a developer, SDET, architect, etc.).
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is a plus.
• Knowledge of Golang, Python.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Experience with system monitoring and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Fully remote & agile working environment.
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

Job Summary

• Candidate will be responsible for providing full life-cycle development (design, coding, and testing) and maintenance of web-based system on Azure
• Candidate should have experience in GitHub, knowledge of DevOps is a plus
• Experienced in designing and implementing web portals, experience with DNN is must
• Ability to work with multiple languages including C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Javascript and related libraries, HTML, Complex SQL queries, CSS, BootStrap, JSON.
• Experience in Agile project management methodology
• Developing and Delivering Excellent Web based solutions/portals/sites based on customer’s requirement within the stipulated timeline
• The candidate should be flexible to learn new technology and platform and should be creative, innovative for improvement ideas, detail oriented, diligent, and eager to learn and grow

Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements to apply logic to integrate functionalities
• Identify and understand any technical bugs on the server, site, log files or modules and work on resolving the bugs
• Understand how FTP server is setup for the site
• Understand system/site technical requirements and suggest enhancements if applicable
• Designing, coding, unit Testing, and integration with Database
• Handle site deployment
• Designing, coding, debugging, technical problem solving, and writing Unit Test cases, etc.

Qualifications

Education / Certification

• B.E. / B.Tech. /MSC in Computer Science or IT.
• MCAD/MCSD/MSITP/MCPD

Technical Expertise

• ASP/ASP.NET/VB.NET/MVC/C#/SQL Server 2012+
• HTML, Javascript, Jquery, CSS, Bootstrap
• GitHub/DevOps, Azure
• Web API/ Web Services, Email Services

Skills and Abilities

• Be able to work with diverse global teams and in an individual contributor role as needed
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills (for local team and global stakeholders/team members)
• Strong task management skills including time management, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Flexibility required to attend late evening meetings with global team members
• Attention to detail and delivering quality projects and knowledge assets

Job Description:

We are looking for a Python Developer to join our team and help us

develop and maintain various software products. A self-driven coder with a zeal to

learn and work on multiple projects. Ultimately responsible for building highly

responsive web applications that align with our business needs.

Required Skills:

1. Extensive experience developing enterprise applications using Python.

2. Extensive experience in designing applications using the framework Django Flask.

3. Must have good hands-on Django and Django Rest Framework for web

framework.

4. Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.

5. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

6. Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process

architecture.

7. Basic understanding of web mark-up, front-end technologies such as JavaScript,

HTML5, and CSS3 .

8. Extensive experience with MySQL or any relational database.

9. Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python.

10. Must be well versed with Docker.

11. Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as

mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.

12. Strong unit test and debugging skills.

13. Knowledge of AI, and chat GPT will be added.

14. Should have experience in LANG Chain.

15. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.

16. Must have basic knowledge of Machine Learning or Bots & and work experience is a plus.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Should be responsible for the development of applications in Python (Framework).

2. Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.

3. Will be mainly responsible for developing with Django & Flask framework.

4. Will be responsible for writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.

5. Will be working in a team or individually as per the requirement.

6. Can also be involved in client handling, and requirement gathering as per the demand of the project.

7. Prime focus will be ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end

Job Description

 Responsibilities

• Develop Python Based API’s using FastAPI and Flask frameworks.
• Implementation of workflow using Apache airflow or similar tools.
• Follow and enforce organization defined SDLC within the offshore team.
•  Writing and modifying Docker files for the back end and Front-End Components.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines for Automation and Code quality checks.
• Writing complex ORM mappings using SQLAlchemy.
• Unit testing using pytest, unittest etc.

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in Python and python-based technologies and frameworks including Flask, Fastapi, SQLAlchemy.
• Experience with AWS services like ECS, S3, ECR, Secrets manager, RDS, ELB, API Gateway, Cloudwatch logs, SNS, SQS, SES, Elastic Cache.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, comfortable working with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases, writing raw SQL queries.
• Experience of using ORM frameworks like SQLAlchemy.
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs.
• Strong understanding of OAuth protocol.
• Experience working with docker and dockerfile.
• Understanding of microservices pattern and architecture.
• Experience with Git, GitFlow, code review process.
• Must enjoy problem solving, have excellent communication skills and be a good team player.

Good To Have:

• Develop Front End Components using VueJS and ReactJS.
• Familiarity with pipeline deployment process, Terraform scripts.
• Familiarity with Sumologic.
• Familiarity with Data warehouse tools like Snowflake.

Back-end developers design and enable code-based innovation in our suite of web-based platforms and databases. Together with the front-end development team output enabling a intuitive, highly functional and seamless experience that delights our users.

This opportunity will rely on your ability to develop backend code, create, edit, or manipulate platform databases, leverage an API based integration approach for platform development.

We are looking for:

• Prior experience designing and developing backend code in support of web applications and platforms
• Sound programming skills and logic
• Excellent team spirit: including daily engagement, strong communication skills and ability to easily collaborate with various stakeholders
• Excellent time-management skills and accountability for tasks on a daily, weekly and sprint basis

Skills Required:

• Sound knowledge and experience with backend technology such as Node, SQL, Python
• Understanding of secure API’s and the successful use in a commercial setting
• Understanding of JSON files, data manipulation techniques and products such as DataBricks
• Experience with Agile development efforts and Azure Dev/Ops tool

Key initial responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test and compile high quality code, data artifacts , processes, in support of the buildout of our platform and web applications
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Designers and Front-end developers to establish and satisfy development objectives
• Foster innovation supporting new and existing programs, products, and features through a combination of thought leadership and emerging industry trends
• Reconciling data and reporting deliverables to internal and client teams
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Taking lead on projects as needed.

• Hands-on experience in backend programming languages.
• Experience in Python 3.X & Django is a must. Knowledge of .NET, Java, PHP is an added advantage.

• Hands-on experience in front-end technologies like Angular, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, etc.

• Experience with leading technical teams and acting as a technical mentor.
• Experience in client communication & reporting to the client-side management team.
• Experience in AWS is an added advantage.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.