Senior System Engineer

Hej, Truecaller is calling you from Stockholm, Sweden! Ready to pick up?
Truecaller was born in 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, with the mission to provide more safe and efficient communication to everyone’s daily life. Today, Truecaller is loved by 190 million daily active users around the world, popular in South Asia, Middle East, Africa! We are the go-to app for Caller ID, spam blocking and payments.
We at Platform team provides the services, tools, and knowhow to make the Business units operationally independent. The domains we cover are Android/iOS core development and CI/CD, Data Platform providing analytics as a service, and back end core development and Infrastructure.
As a System Engineer, you are responsible for building and improving the performance, reliability, availability, security, and evolution of the TC production sites. Along with the team, you also help implement and improve processes for planning, operations, and continuous improvements (This role request on-call task).
What we expect from you:
Extensive knowledge of programming and system administration on Linux environments, preferably working on high throughput and low latency systems
Excellent understanding of distributed system design across process and site boundaries
Hands-on experience with service orchestration and management, deployment activities, configuration management, and all necessary automation
Good understanding of process isolation, virtualization and containerization concepts and being able to apply them when necessary
Good understanding of software development lifecycle, versioning, building, testing, staging and deployment processes with a strong continuous delivery mindset
Having a research-oriented mindset
Strong tendency to keep things simple and maintainable (stick to KISS + YAGNI)

What will you work on?
A modern microservice architecture based on Java/Scala. We use a wide stack of technologies, of which, some of the most important are: Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Apache Cassandra, Scyladb, MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcache, Prometheus, Grafana, Debian Linux.
Building tooling to ease the provisioning and scaling of infrastructure resources.
Continuously improve and extend infrastructure components to handle growth.
Optimize overall systems performance and investigate production issues for future improvements.
Ensure systems availability, reachability, maintainability, and testability.
Building the necessary instrumentation, tooling, and alarming systems in order to escalate abnormalities.
Being on-call is mandatory for the role, once every 3 weeks

It would be great if you also have:
Excellent Golang programming skills.

More about Truecaller
Truecaller is a Swedish company founded in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden by Nami Zarringhalam and Alan Mamedi. The app began when our co-founders were just students who wanted to create a service that would easily identify incoming calls from unknown numbers. We have our strongest presence in South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and HQ in Sweden. We are backed by some of the most prominent investors in the world such as Sequoia Capital, Atomico, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Life at Truecaller - Behind the code: instagram.com/truecaller/

Applying
This position is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Full visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available for eligible candidates. Application in English.


What we offer:
International teams - 25+ nationalities work together!
Learning & sharing environment
Exciting company parties & team activities – Running team, Geek lunch!
Flexible working hours
Start the day with fresh fruit and cereals
Stay refreshed: get juice, tea, coffee and soft drinks
Competitive salary
Medical insurance

Truecaller is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status.