Senior Systems Engineer - Cloud Solutions Team

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-assisted technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers right at your fingertips.

Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

As a member of the Infrastructure team at Survey Monkey, you will have a direct impact in designing, engineering and maintaining our Cloud, Messaging and Observability Platform. Solutioning with best practices, deployment processes, architecture, and support the ongoing operation of our multi-tenant AWS environments. This role presents a prime opportunity for building world-class infrastructure, solving complex problems at scale, learning new technologies and offering mentorship to other engineers.

This opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week.

What you’ll be working on

• Architect, build, and operate AWS environments at scale with well established industry best practices
• Automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, and/or continuous integration/delivery
• Support and maintain AWS services, such as EKS
• Write libraries and APIs that provide a simple, unified interface to other developers when they use our monitoring, logging, and event-processing systems
• Support and partner with other teams on improving our observability systems to monitor site stability and performance
• Work closely with developers in supporting new features and services.
• Work in a highly collaborative team environment
• Serving as a technical mentor
• Participate in on-call rotation

We’d love to hear from people with

• 5-8+ years of relevant professional experience
• 5+ years of production experience with AWS, including but not limited to EKS, EC2, IAM, Kafka, Redis, Memcache, and Cloudwatch
• Extensive experience leading design sessions and evolving well-architected environments in AWS at scale
• Extensive experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, scripting(Bash/Python/Yaml) and helm
• Experience with Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch or tools like New Relic, Datadog or Grafana/Prometheus.
• Experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools - Specifically Splunk and Otel
• Experience instrumenting both Python and Node.js applications to send metrics, traces and logs to third-party Observability tooling.
• Experience with GitOps and tools like ArgoCD/fluxcd.
• Interest in Instrumentation and Optimization of Kubernetes Clusters
• Ability to listen and partner to understand requirements, troubleshoot problems or promote the adoption of platforms
• Experience with GitHub/GitHub Actions in either a software engineering or DevOps environment
• Preferably experience with secrets management, for example Hashicorp Vault
• Preferably experience in an agile environment and JIRA

This opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week.

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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.