Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Us:

We are building the future, one classroom at a time.

Teachmint is an education infrastructure startup and the creator of the largest global teaching-exclusive platform. We have enabled millions of educators in India and across the globe digitize their classrooms with our proprietary, mobile-first, classroom technology. With the largest & most diverse suite of ed-infra products, Teachmint today is the only solution catering to end-to-end infrastructure needs of all education providers; from K-12 schools to after-school tutoring, universities, creators and even edtechs.

Teachmint was founded in 2020 by Mihir Gupta, Payoj Jain, Divyansh Bordia and Anshuman Kumar - alumni of IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi with executive experience at OYO, McKinsey, Swiggy and Roposo. Teachmint has raised $118 million till date and is backed by leading International and Indian investors such as Rocketship.vc, Lightspeed India, Learn Capital, Goodwater Capital, Vulcan Capital, Better Capital, CM Ventures, Epiq Capital and Titan Capital. Our latest series B fundraise has also made us one of the fastest startups in the education sector to raise $100+ million in just 16 months since inception. Today, Teachmint is available in 20 Indian and International languages, with 10+ million teachers & students from 30 countries on its platform. 

We are a team of young, enterprising leaders with experience working at some of India's leading startups over the years. Innovation, ownership and passion is at the heart of everything we do and we are all unified by the single mission of democratizing education by empowering educators and enabling them to create impactful learning experiences. 

Role and Responsibilities:

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join our DevOps team with experience building and scaling services in a cloud environment. You’ll be working with a technology team of 25 and senior leadership directly. You will establish configuration management, automate our infrastructure, implement continuous integration, and train the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.

• Own infrastructure scaling and budget
• Improve site reliability by doing capacity planning, provisioning and monitoring
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting.
• Build and maintain highly available systems.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience.
• Support, troubleshoot and fix production incidences
• Work with cloud providers to reduce cost while lowering risk.

Preferred Experience:

• 4+ years experience in scaling very large systems handling million+ DAU
• Strong Linux and admin skills
• Scripting in cloud environment (Bash, Python, javascript etc)
• GCP/AWS environment familiarity, configuration management
• SQL, Networking (Subnetting, DNS, VPN etc)

Must-have mindsets and skillsets:

• Strong algorithmic thinking
• Seamless Collaboration with Mobile and Web Development team
• Solid foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures,

Why Us:

We are looking for engineers with "co-founder" mentality to join us and lead the building of a product that is changing the face of education like Uber changed urban mobility.

• It has taken us just over an year to onboard 8 Million users with a mere 12 strong engineering team
• This is due to the right problem selection and pure product & engineering focus instead of hard-selling
• We have built a massive suite of features to run classes on our platform that 10L+ teachers love to use
• Teachers and students interact live for over 30 million hours using our conferencing solution generating 4-petabyte data every month
• This scale could not be handled by any off-the-shelf solution, so we built our own implementation of video conferencing starting from WebRTC implementation to QOS based bandwidth control RFCs
• This is just one of the many things we are building from scratch: live whiteboard, live annotations, hand raise, etc
• 1,000 machines on the cloud churn out the class recordings that are available to students to run through 24x7
• 7. 60 Million events and 5 million notifications are sent every day between android/ios/web devices and our servers

Impact of Teachmint on society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH1dFX8hSEs