Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Posted Feb 7

Job location: Remote in India (preferred hybrid in Gurugram)

About the role:

Sun King is looking for a self driven Infrastructure engineer, who is comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment and balancing the needs of multiple development teams and systems. You will work on improving our current IAC, observability stack and incident response processes. You will work with the data science, analytics and engineering teams to build optimised CI CD pipelines, scalable AWS infrastructure and kubernetes deployments.

What you would be expected to do:

  • Work with engineering, automation and data teams to work on various infrastructure requirements.
  • Designing modular and efficient gitops CI/CD pipelines, agnostic to the underlying platform.
  • Managing AWS services for multiple teams.
  • Managing custom data store deployments like sharded mongoDB cluster, elastic search cluster and upcoming services.
  • Deployment and management of kubernetes resources.
  • Deployment and management of custom metrics exporters, trace data, custom application metrics and designing dashboards, querying metrics from multiple resources, as an end-to-end observability stack solution.
  • Setup incident response services and design effective processes.
  • Deployment and management of critical platform services like OPA and keycloak for IAM.
  • Advocate best practices for high availability, and scalability, when designing AWS infrastructure, observability dashboards, implementing IAC, deploying to kubernetes, designing gitops CI/CD pipelines.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

  • Hands on experience with docker or any other container runtime environment, Linux with ability to perform basic administrative tasks.
  • Experience working with web servers (nginx, apache), cloud providers (preferably AWS).
  • Hands-on scripting and automation experience (Python, bash), experience debugging and troubleshooting linux environments and cloud-native deployments.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines, with familiarity with monitoring & alerting systems (grafana, prometheus and exporters).
  • Knowledge of web architecture, distributed systems, and single points of failures.
  • Familiarity with cloud native deployments and concepts like high availability, scalability, bottle neck.
  • Good networking fundamentals - SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, firewalls.

Good to have:

  • Experience with backend development and setting up databases and performance tuning using parameter groups.
  • Working experience on kubernetes clusters administration and kubernetes deployments.
  • Experience working alongside sec ops engineers.
  • Basic knowledge of envoy, service mesh(istio) and SRE concepts like distributed tracing.
  • Setup and usage of open telemetry, central logging and monitoring systems.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

  • Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
  • An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
  • A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
  • Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.

About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month. 

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash. 

Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter. 

From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.

Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.