what is CRED?
CRED is an exclusive community for India’s most trustworthy and CREDitworthy individuals, where the members are rewarded for good financial behavior. CRED was born out of a need to bring back the focus on a long lost virtue, one of trust, the idea being to create a community centered around this virtue. a community that constantly strives to become more virtuous in this regard till they finally scale their behavior to create a utopia where being trustworthy is the norm and not the exception. to build a community like this requires a community of its own; a community special in its own way, working towards making this vision come true
here’s a thought experiment: what do you get when you put a group of incredibly passionate and driven people and entrust them with the complete freedom to chase down their goals in a completely uninhibited manner? answer: you get something close to what we have at CRED; CRED just has it better
at CRED, technology is the backbone that fuels problem-solving at speed and scale with smartness. we have a good share of left-brain/right-brain engineers who solve complex problems, yet at creative best in crafting great consumer experiences. engineers at CRED are highly empowered and are entrusted to own, understand, challenge, and create an upstream impact in Product and Business
if you are a go-getter, passionate about solving real problems, and enjoy the company and camaraderie of some of the best minds in the game, you should definitely explore CRED
here’s what will be in store for you at CRED once you join as a site reliability engineer
what you will do?
design, implement, and manage scalable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
work closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into reliable infrastructure systems
operate containerized workloads on AWS using ECS and EKS
build and maintain observability to understand system health and performance
ensure reliability by diagnosing production issues and restoring services under real-world load
automate infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
operate highly compliant financial services infrastructure and ensure adherence to PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, RBI data-localization, and NPCI guidelines
participate in on-call rotations and incident response, owning problems end-to-end
you should apply if you:
have 2–5 years of experience working with production infrastructure or backend systems
bring strong Linux fundamentals and a genuine interest in operating systems
are comfortable troubleshooting across systems, containers, and networks
have hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
have worked with or been exposed to container orchestration platforms such as ECS or Kubernetes
are deeply curious about microservice ecosystems, spanning Linux, containers, networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, datastores, and observability
enjoy managing large, complex distributed systems in production
demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and proficiency in at least one programming language
may have had exposure to data or platform workloads like Spark, Airflow, Flink, Kafka, or AWS Batch
may have experience running stateful or data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes
have some understanding of data pipelines, batch vs. streaming workloads, and resource / capacity tuning
have operated or interacted with observability stacks such as Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, or Grafana
have seen or contributed to infrastructure or workload cost optimisation in cloud environments
how is life at CRED?
working at CRED would instantly make you realise one thing: you are working with the best talent around you. not just in the role you occupy, but everywhere you go. talk to someone around you; most likely you will be talking to a singer, standup comic, artist, writer, an athlete, maybe a magician. at CRED people always have talent up their sleeves. with the right company, even conversations can be rejuvenating. at CRED, we guarantee a good company
hard truths: pushing oneself comes with the role. and we realise pushing oneself is hard work. which is why CRED is in the continuous process of building an environment that helps the team rejuvenate oneself: included but not limited to a stacked, in-house pantry, with lunch and dinner provided for all the team members, paid sick leaves and a comprehensive health insurance
to make things smoother and to make sure you spend time and energy only on the most important things, CRED strives to make every process transparent: there are no work timings because we do not believe in archaic methods of calculating productivity, your work should speak for you. there are no job designations because you will be expected to hold down roles that cannot be described in one word. since trust is a major virtue in the community we have built, we make it a point to highlight it in the community behind CRED: all our employees get their salaries before their joining date. a show of trust that speaks volumes because of the skin in the game
there are many more such eccentricities that make CRED what it is but that’s for one to discover. if you feel at home reading this, get in touch
