Senior Software Engineer-Systems

About Rocketlane

Role Overview

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or CloudFormation.
• Champion observability by defining SLIs and SLOs and building robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and custom telemetry.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and resilience of the SaaS platform and platform services in production.
• Improve system observability through design and instrumentation of system-level metrics to enhance visibility into system health, performance, and bottlenecks.
• Dive deep into complex system architectures to solve critical performance and reliability challenges.
• Work with developers and product teams to embed non-functional requirements into every product and feature release.
• Conduct root cause analysis and system-level debugging primarily on Linux.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments and infrastructure operations across environments.
• Scale infrastructure to meet growth needs while optimizing cost and performance.
• Take ownership of incident response, on-call rotations, and blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive technical and architectural decisions.

You Should Apply If

• Proficient in at least one programming language such as Python or Java.
• Demonstrated experience with performance optimization, latency reduction, and scaling services.
• Strong analytical skills for incident debugging, log analysis, and system troubleshooting.
• Understanding of service-level metrics (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) and how to operationalize them.
• Experience building large-scale, distributed, resilient systems.
• Strong understanding of core infrastructure components such as load balancers, firewalls, and databases, including their internal workings and operational fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure cost management, proactively identifying cost drivers and implementing optimization strategies.
• Familiarity with on-call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or CloudFormation and other orchestration tools.
• Ability to deep-dive into third-party or internal library codebases to understand internal behavior, debug complex issues, and contribute insights or fixes.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS, with Azure or GCP also acceptable.

Candidate Profile

• Highly self-driven, accountable, and eager to own initiatives end-to-end.
• Comfortable working in startups or small teams where flexibility, speed, and autonomy are key.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.

Why Join Us

• Impact and ownership: bring your ideas and make them happen.
• Work with a team of passionate, quirky, and talented people.
• Celebrate wins with team outings and milestone celebrations.
• Learn and grow your career and pick up new skills.
• Flexibility and balance: collaborate in the office five days a week with flexibility around hours.

Workplace

• The team collaborates in the office five days a week.
• Flexibility is offered around working hours.