🎁 Before you apply, rehearse this interview. Create your free WorkMundi account and get an Interview Training on HelpsYouSpeak — no cost, no card. I want my training →
Software Engineer - Infrastructure Department: Global Analytics and Technology Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: India Description Job location: Gurugram (Hybrid) 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 optimized 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 clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, 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. Set up 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, and 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 and Linux with the ability to perform basic administrative tasks. Experience working with web servers (nginx, apache) and 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 failure. Familiarity with cloud-native deployments and concepts like high availability, scalability, and bottleneck. Good networking fundamentals — SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls. Good to have: Experience with backend development and setting up databases and performance tuning using parameter groups. Working experience in Kubernetes cluster 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 Sun King offers: 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 King Center for Leadership.
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
144.883Jobs
31.687IN
81%EN
That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.
