Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a 24/7, follow-the-sun SRE team responsible for keeping our critical production systems reliable, scalable, and secure around the clock. As part of a globally distributed team spanning multiple time zones, you will share on-call coverage that follows daylight hours rather than night shifts, and partner closely with development teams to automate operations, strengthen observability, and continuously improve system resilience.

Main Responsibilities:
System Reliability: Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems.
Service Level Objectives: Define, measure, and report on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and use them to prioritize reliability work.
Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline operations.
Monitoring: Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards & alerts
Incident Management:



Lead incident response efforts and post-mortem analysis to prevent future occurrences.
Performance Tuning: Optimize system performance and scalability.
Cost Optimization: Monitor and optimize cloud spend (e.g., right-sizing and autoscaling with Karpenter) to balance reliability with cost efficiency.
Security: Implement and maintain security best practices.
Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems and processes.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers and champion SRE best practices across cross-functional teams.
On-Call Shifts: Own front-line 24/7 on-call rotations and incident response for critical production systems, acting as the reliability shield for the platform and observability engineering teams so they are not paged for production incidents.
Requirements:
Qualification:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
Experience: 5+ years of e

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Chennai