PhonePe
About this role
PhonePe processes over 330 million transactions a day for more than 600 million registered users, and this role keeps that infrastructure standing. You troubleshoot across the whole stack from hardware and network through to application, diagnose distributed systems handling millions of queries per second, and design and maintain the core infrastructure that lets PhonePe scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. The posting is honest that the work is heavily command line driven and requires strong Linux, and that you will be in an on call rotation. Beyond incident response you drive performance testing, capacity planning and high availability practice, own the introduction of new technology with proper testing and documentation, and get new team members production ready. It suits an infrastructure engineer who wants payments scale rather than a generalist backend developer moving sideways into SRE.
Who this is for
What the posting asks for: a minimum of 4 to 7 years of strong hands on Linux and Unix system administration, including TCP/IP, DNS and load balancers, plus expertise in managing and scaling infrastructure.
The real day to day: troubleshooting issues across the entire stack covering hardware, software, application and network. Improving the reliability and performance of distributed systems and containerised deployments. Diagnosing complex distributed systems handling millions of queries per second. Working in a heavily command line driven environment that requires strong Linux understanding. Participating in an on call rotation. Designing, building and maintaining the core infrastructure that lets PhonePe scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Taking part in analysis and system improvement planning. Driving performance testing, capacity planning and high availability practices. Owning implementations of new technology with proper testing and documentation. Proactively monitoring and solving issues that could affect infrastructure. Onboarding new team members and getting them production ready.
Location and setup: Bangalore. The posting does not state office days.
Honest fit guidance: the on call rotation is stated in the posting rather than buried, and in a payments business an incident at 2am is a real incident, so weigh that honestly. PhonePe describes a culture where you own your work end to end from day one and teams frequently build frameworks from scratch, which suggests genuine autonomy but also limited hand holding. Worth noting PhonePe has several similarly titled SRE openings live, including SRE 3 and a big data focused SRE at 7 or more years, so check you are applying to the level that fits. This is the Bangalore infrastructure role; PhonePe's Pune backend role on today's board is a different team and skill set.
The real day to day: troubleshooting issues across the entire stack covering hardware, software, application and network. Improving the reliability and performance of distributed systems and containerised deployments. Diagnosing complex distributed systems handling millions of queries per second. Working in a heavily command line driven environment that requires strong Linux understanding. Participating in an on call rotation. Designing, building and maintaining the core infrastructure that lets PhonePe scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Taking part in analysis and system improvement planning. Driving performance testing, capacity planning and high availability practices. Owning implementations of new technology with proper testing and documentation. Proactively monitoring and solving issues that could affect infrastructure. Onboarding new team members and getting them production ready.
Location and setup: Bangalore. The posting does not state office days.
Honest fit guidance: the on call rotation is stated in the posting rather than buried, and in a payments business an incident at 2am is a real incident, so weigh that honestly. PhonePe describes a culture where you own your work end to end from day one and teams frequently build frameworks from scratch, which suggests genuine autonomy but also limited hand holding. Worth noting PhonePe has several similarly titled SRE openings live, including SRE 3 and a big data focused SRE at 7 or more years, so check you are applying to the level that fits. This is the Bangalore infrastructure role; PhonePe's Pune backend role on today's board is a different team and skill set.
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