As a Staff Engineer - Systems , you will focus on building and architecting next-generation platform services for Freshworks with your strong background in distributed systems and mentor your team to achieve this.You will have an opportunity to redefine customer experiences by building systems that are milli-second efficient, always available and working at internet scale. If you are the kind of engineer who is passionate about building systems, have a good eye for analysis and a mind that can think outside the box, we want to talk to you. Do you wanna take on solving some cool and complex Distributed-Systems/Big-Data problems at scale?
At Freshworks are building next gen CRM, Support & IT Automation, Sales & Marketing SaaS products/services & related platform/Foundation-services - for the Small and Mid-market customers across the globe. We have about 32K+ customers (Small/Medium size Organizations) across 140 countries, with ~10 SaaS product offerings. We also deal with 20TB of logs/day – where we have some really cool and interesting problems to solve with our Search / Relevance Engineering. We deal with ~1B Messages with ~300K/Min and ~5B conversations with ~6M/Day – where our Chat, Bot and Messaging solutions have to deal with competing with the best in the world.
The very purpose of the Freshworks Platforms team is to build efficiency, bring in agility into product development, enable services to scale and improve performance, and thereby provide a seamless experience to our customers. In order to achieve this, the Platforms teams work very closely with our internal stakeholders and align to their goals - the Product teams, the Customer facing teams(Sales, Customer Success, Onboarding teams).
Some of the key themes include providing a “Unified Freshworks Experience”, being mid-market ready and providing smart analytics. This group is looking for a Lead Systems Engineer who is a very optimised solution oriented with a vision of the impact of the code in the overall software development life cycle.
Our System engineers build the APIs / Services / Features to support these complex scenarios and seamlessly scale and perform for current and future rapid growth we are experiencing.
We work in solving some of the problems as common platform/foundation-services engineering where we take on problems across products from building SSO, Containerization, Reliable deployment working in Agile mode. Our engineering takes pride in delivering some inspiring and fresh experiences for our customers and their business/customers.
As a Staff Systems Engineer you will design, architect and implement multi-tier (DB, services, and the web) software applications, and document, test, fix and enhance systems when needed. In your agile team, you will closely work with engineers, architects, managers, design, QA and operations teams, and create solutions that meet business requirements.
You will spend most of your time developing clean code with limited abstraction. In this role, you will also lead and mentor team members across functions. You will also be implementing and supporting compliance to Freshworks compliance and information security processes.
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Platform teams tend to be small but self-sufficient. You will have a large scope of responsibilities. They also tend not to have any QA or Ops personnel.
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Company
Freshworks
Job Posted
a year ago
Job Type
Full-time
WorkMode
On-site
Experience Level
8-12 years
Category
Locations
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Qualification
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