About the role
About Turvo
Turvo provides a collaborative Transportation Management System (TMS) application designed specifically for the supply chain. Turvo Collaboration Cloud connects freight brokers, 3PLs, shippers, and carriers to unite supply chain ecosystems, delivering outstanding customer experiences, real-time collaboration, and accelerated growth. The technology unifies internal and external systems, providing one end-to-end solution that streamlines operations, enhances analytics, and automates business processes while eliminating redundant manual tasks. Turvo’s customers include some of the world’s largest Fortune 500 logistics service providers and shippers as well as small to mid-sized freight brokers.
Turvo is based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Hyderabad, India. (www.turvo.com).
About the role
Senior SRE for Turvo’s production platform: incidents, releases, operability with engineering, and automation that cuts toil and improves visibility. Stack includes AWS, Java, MySQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, and growing Amazon ECS use alongside existing infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- On-call and incidents: Triage alerts, investigate across apps and infrastructure (including Java services and data stores), lead or co-lead outage response, and drive RCA plus durable fixes.
- Partnership: Active triage with feature teams; support production releases and maintenance windows (coordination, validation, and monitoring); influence designs for observability, scalability, resiliency, and security.
- ECS: Support reliability and operations of Amazon ECS services (deploys, monitoring, troubleshooting).
- Platform: Proactively operate and improve AWS and managed services (e.g. RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch); capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost/efficiency work.
- Engineering: Build Python tooling and automation (scheduled jobs, CI integrations, reporting) and document runbooks for recurring operational work.
- Leadership: Mentor peers and act as technical lead when senior staff are unavailable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5-8 years on large-scale Linux/UNIX production systems; 3+ years in a SRE, platform, or similar role with real production ownership.
- Strong Python/Scripting for production tooling; able to read and debug Java services in production.
- AWS at scale; MySQL and MongoDB; debug distributed server applications
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing, and APM) for monitoring, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
- Solid monitoring, alerting, and performance troubleshooting; clear communication during incidents and in writing.
- Effective team player in a distributed, fast-moving engineering org.