Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Toast · Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 7 - 10 years · Profitable · Remote friendly · Posted 9 Aug 2023

Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. We’re taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building a restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.
At Toast, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all customer-facing services and other Toast production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound software engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and our codebase. Our decisions are based on instrumentation and continuous observability, as well as predictions and capacity planning.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplift
- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives
Troubleshooting and Supporting Escalations:
- Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations across infrastructure, databases, web, and mobile applications
- Implement strategies to increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization
- Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively, looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again
Do you have the right ingredients? (Requirements)
- Extensive industry experience with at least 7+ years in SRE and/or DevOps roles
- Polyglot technologist/generalist with a thirst for learning
- Deep understanding of cloud and microservice architecture and the JVM
- Experience with tools such as APM, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker
- Experience developing software or software projects in at least four languages, ideally including two of Go, Python, and Java
- Experience with cloud computing technologies ( AWS cloud provider preferred)
Bread puns are encouraged but not required

About Toast
About
Toast empowers restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight guests.
We are a NYSE-listed Boston-based public company. We are also series F funded and have raised 400M USD in the last round in 2020.
We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive, all-in-one platform, across point of sale, guest marketing, digital ordering & delivery, and payroll & HR.
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Toast helps restaurants of all sizes streamline operations, boost revenue, enhance team management, and deliver exceptional guest experiences.
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- Role: Staff Engineer, ArgoCD
- Experience: 5.5-7.5 Years
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Work Mode: Gurugram (Hybrid)
Job Description
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) administration, deployment, and troubleshooting
- Expertise in GitOps implementation using ArgoCD
- Strong experience with Crossplane for infrastructure provisioning and orchestration
- Hands-on experience with New Relic for monitoring, observability, and performance management
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Experience working with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization technologies
- Strong Linux administration and scripting skills
- Experience implementing platform reliability, security, and automation best practices
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure and application deployments
- Implement and support GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
- Design and manage infrastructure provisioning using Crossplane
- Monitor platform performance, reliability, and user experience using New Relic
- Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery
- Collaborate with development and platform engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions
- Implement Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform and automation tools
- Ensure platform stability, security, scalability, and operational excellence
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and performance-related issues
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across DevOps processes, tooling, and automation practices
- Support cloud infrastructure management and containerized application environments on AWS
- Promote DevOps best practices, governance, and operational standards across teams
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related fields
- Responsible for building, managing, and maintaining deployment pipelines and developing self-service tooling formanaging Git, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD & Pipelining etc in cloud infrastructure
- Responsible for building and managing DevOps agile tool chain with
- Responsible for working as an integrator between developer teams and various cloud infrastructures.
Section 2
- Responsibilities include helping the development team with best practices, provisioning monitoring, troubleshooting, optimizing and tuning, automating and improving deployment and release processes.
Section 3
- Responsible for maintaining application security with perioding tracking and upgrading package dependencies in coordination with respective developer teams .
- Responsible for packaging and containerization of deploy units and strategizing it in coordination with developer team
Section 4
- Setting up tools and required infrastructure. Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
- Responsible for documentation of the process.
- Responsible for leading projects with end to end execution
Qualification: Bachelors of Engineering /MCA Preferably with AWS Cloud certification
Ideal Candidate -
- is experienced between 2-4 years with AWS certification and DevOps
experience.
- age less than 30 years, self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- is interested in building a sustainable DevOps platform with maximum
automation
- is interested in learning and being challenged on day to day basis.
- who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary
action to get it done.
- who can solve complex problems.
- who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking
ownership of their success and failure, Both
Expert troubleshooting skills.
Expertise in designing highly secure cloud services and cloud infrastructure using AWS
(EC2, RDS, S3, ECS, Route53)
Experience with DevOps tools including Docker, Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Splunk.
Experience building and maintaining large scale infrastructure in AWS including
experience leveraging one or more coding languages for automation.
Experience providing 24X7 on call production support.
Understanding of best practices, industry standards and repeatable, supportable
processes.
Knowledge and working experience of container-based deployments such as Docker,
Terraform, AWS ECS.
of TCP/IP, DNS, Certs & Networking Concepts.
Knowledge and working experience of the CI/CD development pipeline and experience
of the CI/CD maturity model. (Jenkins)
Knowledge and working experience
Strong core Linux OS skills, shell scripting, python scripting.
Working experience of modern engineering operations duties, including providing the
necessary tools and infrastructure to support high performance Dev and QA teams.
Database, MySQL administration skills is a plus.
Prior work in high load and high-traffic infrastructure is a plus.
Clear vision of and commitment to providing outstanding customer service.
Experience - 2+ Years
Requirements:
● Should have at least 2+ years of DevOps experience
● Should have experience with Kubernetes
● Should have experience with Terraform/Helm
● Should have experience in building scalable server-side systems
● Should have experience in cloud infrastructure and designing databases
● Having experience with NodeJS/TypeScript/AWS is a bonus
● Having experience with WebRTC is a bonus
- Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
- Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Role : Senior Engineer Infrastructure
Key Responsibilities:
● Infrastructure Development and Management: Design, implement, and manage robust and scalable infrastructure solutions, ensuring optimal performance,security, and availability. Lead transition and migration projects, moving legacy systemsto cloud-based solutions.
● Develop and maintain applications and services using Golang.
● Automation and Optimization: Implement automation tools and frameworksto optimize operational processes. Monitorsystem performance, optimizing and modifying systems as necessary.
● Security and Compliance: Ensure infrastructure security by implementing industry best practices and compliance requirements. Respond to and mitigate security incidents and vulnerabilities.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
● Good understanding of prominent backend languageslike Golang, Python, Node.js, or others.
● In-depth knowledge of network architecture,system security, infrastructure scalability.
● Proficiency with development tools,server management, and database systems.
● Strong experience with cloud services(AWS.), deployment,scaling, and management.
● Knowledge of Azure is a plus
● Familiarity with containers and orchestration services,such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
● Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
● Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.
● Genuine passion for backend development and keen interest in scalable systems.

Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, or related.
A Strong Devops experience of at least 4+ years
Strong Experience in Unix/Linux/Python scripting
Strong networking knowledge,vSphere networking stack knowledge desired.
Experience on Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure)
Exposure to Continuous Development Tools such as Jenkins or Spinnaker
Exposure to configuration management systems such as Ansible
Knowledge of resource monitoring systems
Ability to scope and estimate
Strong verbal and communication skills
Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Exposure to Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) like - Chainstack/IBM blockchain platform/Oracle Blockchain Cloud/Rubix/VMWare etc.
Capable of provisioning and maintaining local enterprise blockchain platforms for Development and QA (Hyperledger fabric/Baas/Corda/ETH).
About Navis
Experienced with Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Jenkins.
Experience is needed in Kubernetes (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
Good understanding in Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, and other Azure components.
Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer ready for a Senior role or already at a Senior level.
Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:
Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) product such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services.
Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such including Azure AD or AD B2C.
Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics.
Knowledge of PowerShell, GitHub, ARM templates, version controls/hotfix strategy and deployment automation.
Ability and desire to quickly pick up new technologies, languages, and tools
Excellent communication skills and Good team player.
Passionate about code quality and best practices is an absolute must
Must show evidence of your passion for technology and continuous learning
The brand is associated with some of the major icons across categories and tie-ups with industries covering fashion, sports, and music, of course. The founders are Marketing grads, with vast experience in the consumer lifestyle products and other major brands. With their vigorous efforts toward quality and marketing, they have been able to strike a chord with major E-commerce brands and even consumers.
What you will do:
- Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
- Providing guidance, thought leadership and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
- Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
- Developing and implementing technical efforts to design, build and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling and advanced analytics
- Participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
- Troubleshooting incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems and implementing preventive measures
- Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology
- 2+ years of experience as architect, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
- Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytic
- Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists and subject matter experts
- Self-motivation with the ability to drive features to delivery
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
- AWS certifications are a plus
- Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC






