Senior Systems Engineer - DevPlatform Team

SurveyMonkey is the world’s most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business—loved by users. We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms. With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it’s like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.

Trusted by millions—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth. Discover how at surveymonkey.com.

What we’re looking for

The Developer Platform team is looking for a passionate DevOps engineer with solid frontend experience, to help architect and lead the build pipelines and tooling for our Node.js ecosystem. Our team owns the CI/CD pipeline for the company and works to create and standardize powerful tooling as well as unify the company towards a single golden path approach.

What you’ll be working on

• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Design, build, and manage automated CI/CD pipelines for Node.js applications using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
• Node.js Application Integration: Implement and maintain integrations for Node.js applications within CI/CD workflows, ensuring seamless deployment and testing.
• AWS EKS Management: Configure and manage Amazon EKS clusters for containerized applications, including setup, scaling, and monitoring.
• GitOps Implementation: Implement and manage GitOps practices using Argo CD or Flux CD to drive continuous deployment and infrastructure as code (IaC) workflows.
• Automation and Scripting: Create and manage scripts for automated testing, deployment, and environment provisioning.
• Version Control Management: Manage version control systems (e.g., Git) to ensure code quality and streamline the integration and deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor pipeline performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to ensure continuous delivery and integration efficiency.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to define and implement best practices for CI/CD and ensure smooth deployments.
• Documentation: Document CI/CD processes, configurations, and workflows to maintain clear and comprehensive records.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure security best practices and compliance are integrated into CI/CD processes and deployments.

We’d love to hear from people with

• Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience in CI/CD pipeline development, with significant experience in Node.js application environments.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
• Leading and taking ownership on Node.js toolchain for the company.
• Can work comfortably with the NodeJs, Typescript and the usual tooling such as esbuild, webpack, npm,ensuring that we get buy-in and built trust with frontend and web platform developers.
• Expertise in scripting languages (e.g., Bash or Python) for automation.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, specifically AWS EKS).
• Hands-on experience with GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux CD.
• Knowledge of cloud platform AWS and their CI/CD integrations.
• Experience with static code analysis tools.
• Familiar with industry standards regarding releases, rollbacks, and deployments
• Problem-Solving Skills: Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Demonstrated ability to analyze and improve existing processes for better efficiency and effectiveness
• Mentoring: Mentor junior engineers and leading projects

SurveyMonkey believes in-person collaboration is valuable for building relationships, fostering community, and enhancing our speed and execution in problem-solving and decision-making. As such, this opportunity is hybrid and requires you to work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week.

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Why SurveyMonkey? We’re glad you asked 

SurveyMonkey is a place where the curious come to grow.  We’re building an inclusive workplace where people of every background can excel no matter their time zone. At SurveyMonkey, we weave employee feedback and our core values into everything we do to create forward-looking benefits policies, employee programs, and an award-winning culture, including our annual holiday refresh, our annual week of service, learning and development opportunities like Curiosity Week, and our C.H.O.I.C.E Fund. 

Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

SurveyMonkey is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We celebrate the unique differences of our employees because that is what drives curiosity, innovation, and the success of our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.