Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

At Talkdesk, we are courageous innovators focused on redefining the customer experience, making the impossible possible for companies globally. We champion an inclusive and diverse culture representative of the communities in which we live and serve. And, we give back to our community by volunteering our time, supporting non-profits, and minimizing our global footprint. Each day, thousands of employees, customers, and partners all over the world trust Talkdesk to deliver a better way to great experiences.

We are recognized as a cloud contact center leader by many of the most influential research organizations, including Gartner and Forrester. With $498 million in total funding, a valuation of more than $10 Billion, and a ranking of #16 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, now is the time to be part of the Talkdesk legacy to help accelerate our success in a new decade of transformational growth.

At Talkdesk, we embrace FAST, our fundamental operating principles that define who we are as an organization. These principles drive us to make the impossible possible. FAST: Focus + Accountability + Speed = Talkdesker.

• Focus: Focus time, energy and attention on what is most impactful for the business and thoughtful about how and when to partner with others.
• Accountability: Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and drive results. Accept responsibility for successes and failures.
• Speed: Execute with agility and urgency. Act promptly, decisively, and without delay. Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Talkdesker: YOU!

We are looking for an engineer to focus on Developer Experience and who can help us design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable services. As Talkdesk provides a Contact Center service, we play a very critical role in our Customer’s business operations and therefore need to provide a highly available and fault tolerant service.

We believe in a DevOps philosophy where every engineering team at Talkdesk should be responsible for the software they build and deploy and SREs play a critical role in ensuring that the teams have the tools, practices, and expertise to make that happen in a blame free culture.

Our mission is to improve developers’ experience by giving them the tools to manage the entire software lifecycle and to be self-sufficient. 

To help with this we are building our own internal PaaS using the latest technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kotlin and others. This platform is an important pillar in Talkdesk’s engineering effort and helps us deliver better, faster and more reliable solutions for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, harden, and maintain some key parts of our internal platform (from CI/CD to developer tools which aim increasing R&D productivity)
• Help migrate to industry leading CICD tools like GitHub Actions
• Help automate safe deployment practices by using industry leading tools like GitHub Actions,  ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, Helm Charts, etc
• Help automate infrastructure provisioning and other engineering processes by working on automations built on top of an engineering platform written in GitHub Actions
• Coach and up-skill other engineering team members
• Solve challenging technical problems and put your skills to the test every day; see an immediate impact of your work and value you created for other engineers
• Automate every aspect of our infrastructure to remove as much as possible any human intervention
• Develop effective tooling, alerts, and response to both identify and address reliability risks
• Drive and promote protocols on production readiness and operational excellence
• Partner with product engineering teams to debug production outages and carry out action items to improve reliability of those systems
• Advocate for automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, feature toggles and progressive rollouts
• Plan for growth of Talkdesk’s infrastructure.

Skills and Qualifications: 

• 5- 8 years of experience.
• Understand large-scale complex systems from a reliability perspective
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD processes and tools
• Passion for producing clean, standards-compliant, secure code
• Bringing a developer mindset and applying it to infrastructure
• Know your way around Linux/Unix systems
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Experience building software with a programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala or any other JVM-based languages
• Experience writing scripts for automating the execution of certain tasks with a programming language like Ruby, Python, Bash or any other scripting language
• Experience with at least one relational and non-relational databases (ex: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch)
• Ability to identify time consuming and error prone manual tasks and then build/leverage tooling to automate them
• Ability to identify root causes of instability in a large-scale distributed system across stacks

Nice to haves / Pluses: 

• Experience with cloud-based solutions such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g Jenkins, GitlabCI), Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Artifact Management tools (e.g: Nexus, ECR)
• Experience with Go programming language

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

Primarily office-environment work, extended periods of sitting or standing, computer-based work. Limited lifting, and equipment usage limited to computer-related equipment (keyboards, mouse, etc.)

The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdeskers to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution, and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity, diversity, and genuine acceptance. To that end, we will hire, promote, work along, cheer for, bond with, and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity, indigenous heritage, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.