Senior Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer

Verta

Verta

Software Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Apr 29, 2026

Business Area:

Engineering

Seniority Level:

Mid-Senior level

Job Description:

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry. Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

Cloudera seeks a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive innovation of our platforms. You will take part in setting the technical vision and defining cross-organizational patterns across many areas, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Distributed systems, GitOps, CI/CD/CT, Observability, Security, and more.

As a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will:

  • Collaborate across the organization to improve reliability and maintainability

  • Drive organization-wide architectural decisions and platform engineering practices

  • Serve as a role model and mentor, to up skill other engineers

  • Platform Engineering across diverse infrastructure, cloud providers and hybrid use cases

  • Eliminate toil through simplification and automation

  • Provide technical leadership to SRE peers and other engineers

  • Architected products for both SaaS and self-hosted while keeping same code base

  • Influence the product roadmap for delivering reliable services to customers

  • Monitor availability, latency and overall service health

  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

  • Participate in an on-call rotation

We’re excited about you if you have:

  • Have 10+ years industry experience in SRE, DevOps or related practices

  • Generalist mindset with mastery of many domains, and pride in quickly learning new areas

  • Enjoy collaborating, mentoring and are a strong communicator

  • Proven ability to handle multiple complex technical projects with distributed teams

  • Have architected PaaS/SaaS products using container-based micro-services patterns

  • Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting, tuning, and capacity planning

  • Strong troubleshooting skills that span contexts: Linux, network and application code

  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes and the wider ecosystem

  • Experience with observability, logging and monitoring tools

  • Experience with Terraform and related technologies

  • Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Flux CD, Argo CD

  • Programming experience in Python, Go or similar languages

  • Experience with GitOps and Git-based automation

  • Expert level experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

You may also have:

  • Experience with systems hardening such as CIS, STIG, SELinux

  • Experience with compliance programs such as SOC, FedRAMP, HITRUST CSF

  • Experience with database systems, including Postgres, MariaDB, and MySQL

  • Experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform or OpenStack

What you can expect from us:

  • Generous PTO Policy

  • Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

  • Flexible WFH Policy

  • Mental & Physical Wellness programs

  • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program

  • Access to Continued Career Development

  • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages

  • Paid Volunteer Time

  • Employee Resource Groups

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