Summary

Join Guidewire’s Product Development & Operations (PDO) organization as a cornerstone of our Site Reliability Engineering team. We are the architects of stability for the Guidewire Cloud Platform, ensuring the world’s leading P&C; insurers can depend on our mission-critical applications. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead you aren't just maintaining systems; you are defining the technical vision for how we operate at scale, automating the complex, and leading a high-performing "pod" of engineers to deliver a resilient, self-healing cloud ecosystem.

The Role

This is a dual-accountability leadership role. You will act as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (P5)—providing deep technical expertise and cross-team architectural influence—and as a Tech Lead, where you will serve as the technical engine for your pod. You will bridge the gap between long-term reliability strategy and the daily execution of your team, ensuring that our applications are not only reliable but also evolving through elite software engineering practices.
Job Description

What You’ll Do





• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical authority for your SRE pod. You will own the technical design for pod deliverables, oversee production deployments, and act as the final point of escalation for complex technical impediments.
• Architectural Influence: Design and implement systemic improvements to our AWS and Kubernetes-based environments. You won't just fix incidents; you will lead the creation of frameworks that prevent them across the entire organization.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Protect the pod’s sprint goals by breaking down high-level requirements into actionable technical tasks. Lead by example through hands-on coding (AI, Python, Go, or Java), rigorous code reviews, and the promotion of "Clean Code" and testing standards. Triage and assign work.
• Toil Elimination & Automation: Champion the transition from manual operations to "Operations as Code." You will lea

📌 Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Guidewire Software
📍 Bengaluru