Senior Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps, Java)

Why Join Exadel We’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks. From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next. What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving. About The Client The company has been building solutions for mobile apps, effortless payment, business travel, and advertising since 1992. The customer is developing a mobility platform that allows operators to manage their vehicles and drivers efficiently, regulators to be informed and establish guidelines, service providers to deliver sustainable solutions, and riders to have an effortless transit experience. Project Team The project is a taxi ordering service and it contains the following components: Ride server (all data processing)Payment server (PCI DSS-compliant), which performs a transaction with the passenger's digital wallet and payment gatewaysMobile application (hail taxi, geocoding, map, payments)Taxi terminal (3rd party) The project integrates with 3rd party services, including PayPal, MasterPass, Stripe, and Twilio. The team itself consists of 1 Team Lead, 1 UI Developers, 6 Back-End Developers, 9 Mobile Developers, 5 QA, 2 BA and 2 Designer. What You’ll Do Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable distributed systemsImprove system availability, performance, and resilienceAutomate infrastructure, deployments, and operational processesDiagnose and resolve production issuesLead upgrades and migrations with minimal or zero downtimeParticipate in on-call rotations and incident responseCollaborate closely with development teams to improve operabilityDrive best practices around monitoring, alerting, and capacity planningReduce operational toil through automationContribute to incident management, post-mortems, disaster recovery strategies, and continuous reliability improvements What You Bring Extensive professional experience, specializing in Kubernetes and AWSStrong programming skills in Java, with willingness to learn RubySolid understanding of concurrency, runtime behavior, and performance optimizationHands-on experience with Docker and containerized workloadsStrong Kubernetes expertise (Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, Helm, troubleshooting, autoscaling)Strong AWS experience (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, CloudWatch)Experience designing infrastructure for high availability and disaster recoveryExperience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar)Experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, Pulsar, etc.)Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), including query optimization, replication, and failover strategiesFamiliarity with NoSQL and in-memory databases (Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB)Experience with distributed systems, microservices, capacity planning, and fault toleranceExperience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry)Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, load balancing)Experience with SRE practices, including SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, load testing, resilience testing, and incident managementStrong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teamsCalm and effective during incidents with an ownership mindset Nice to Have Experience operating production systems written in Ruby, Java, or other major platformsFramework experience such as Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, or similarExperience operating high-traffic SaaS platformsCost optimization in cloud environmentsChaos engineering practicesExperience mentoring junior engineers English level Upper-Intermediate Legal & Hiring Information Exadel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion across minority, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and more.Reasonable accommodations are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.Please note: this job description is not exhaustive. Duties and responsibilities may evolve based on business needs.Compensation details are shared with candidates at the early stage of the recruitment process.The offer is not binding until a signed contract is in place. Your Benefits at Exadel Exadel benefits vary by location and contract type. Your recruiter will fill you in on the details. International projectsIn-office, hybrid, or remote flexibilityMedical healthcareRecognition programOngoing learning & reimbursementWell-being programTeam events & local benefitsSports compensationReferral bonusesTop-tier equipment provision Exadel Culture We lead with trust, respect, and purpose. We believe in open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship that helps you grow, lead, and make a real difference. Ours is a culture where ideas are challenged, voices are heard, and your impact matters.