Principal Systems Reliability Engineer

Job description

About Groww

We are a passionate group of people focused on making financial services accessible to every Indian through a multi-product platform.

Each day, we help millions of customers take charge of their financial journey.

Customer obsession is in our DNA.

Every product, every design, every algorithm down to the tiniest detail is executed keeping the customers’ needs and convenience in mind.

Our people are our greatest strength.

Everyone at Groww is driven by ownership, customer-centricity, integrity and the passion to constantly challenge the status quo.

Are you as passionate about defying conventions and creating something extraordinary as we are?

Let’s chat.

Our Vision

Every individual deserves the knowledge, tools, and confidence to make informed financial decisions.

At Groww, we are making sure every Indian feels empowered to do so through a cutting-edge multi-product platform offering a variety of financial services.

Our long-term vision is to become the trusted financial partner for millions of Indians.

Our Values

Our culture enables us to be what we are — India’s fastest-growing financial services company.

It fosters an environment where collaboration, transparency, and open communication take center-stage and hierarchies fade away.

There is space for every individual to be themselves and feel motivated to bring their best to the table, as well as craft a promising career for themselves.

The values that form our foundation are:

• Radical customer centricity
• Ownership-driven culture
• Keeping everything simple
• Long-term thinking
• Complete transparency

Expertise and Qualifications

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our engineering team.

As an SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our applications and infrastructure.

You will collaborate closely with software developers, platform engineers, and other team members to design, provision, build, and maintain systems that are scalable, secure, and highly available.

What will make you a great fit for the role:

• 6–9 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or system architecture roles with large-scale production systems.
• Extensive experience managing and scaling high-traffic, low-latency fintech systems, ensuring reliability, compliance, and secure transaction processing.
• Proven expertise in the networking stack, with hands-on experience in BGP, OSPF, DNS, HTTP(S), TCP/IP, MPLS, and VPN protocols.
• Advanced knowledge of GCP networking (VPC design, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, Global Load Balancers, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, Network Intelligence Center, and Service Mesh).
• Strong background in managing complex multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) with a focus on secure and compliant architectures in regulated industries.
• Hands-on expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and microservices, with production experience in regulated fintech environments.
• Advanced programming and scripting skills in Python, Go, or Java, applied to automation, risk reduction, and financial system resilience.
• Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Mimir, Grafana, Loki) to ensure real-time visibility into trading, payments, and transaction flows.
• Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, and DNS management across multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
• Implemented end-to-end observability solutions (metrics, logs, and traces) to monitor and optimize transaction throughput, adhering to latency SLAs.
• Leadership skills with experience mentoring teams, fostering a culture of reliability, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders in product teams.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, and incident management abilities, especially in high-stakes production incidents involving customer transactions.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

What you’ll do:

• Architect and lead the design of scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions.
• Implement strategies for high availability, scalability, and low-latency performance.
• Define service-level objectives (SLOs) and service-level indicators (SLIs) to track performance and reliability.
• Drive incident management by identifying root causes and providing long-term solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative, learning-focused environment.
• Design advanced monitoring and alerting systems for proactive system management.
• Architect and optimize network topologies (hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and on-prem) to support ultra-low-latency trading and compliance-driven workloads.
• Configure and manage cloud and on-prem networking components (VPCs, Shared VPCs, Private Service Connect, Cloud NAT, and Global Load Balancers) for secure and compliant transaction flows.
• Implement secure connectivity solutions (VPNs, Interconnect, Direct Connect, and service meshes) to meet fintech regulatory requirements and standards.
• Develop and maintain DNS, load-balancing, and traffic-routing strategies to ensure millisecond-level latency for real-time transactions.
• Evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and principles to automate infrastructure provisioning.
• Collaborate on reliability roadmaps, performance benchmarks, and disaster recovery plans tailored for low-latency and high-throughput workloads.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, integrating service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
• Implement chaos engineering principles to strengthen system resilience.
• Influence technical direction, reliability culture, and organizational strategies.

Required Skill Profession

Engineers