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Principal Engineer (Voice & Messaging)

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About us

Exotel is the emerging market's leading full-stack customer engagement platform and business-focused virtual telecom operator. Founded in 2011, our cloud-based product suite powers over 50 million daily engagements across voice, video, and messaging channels.

Trusted by 6,000+ companies across 60+ countries-including India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa-Exotel enables unified customer engagement for leading businesses such as Ola, Swiggy, Flipkart, GoJek, Byju's, HDFC Bank, Zomato, and Urban Company. Our offerings include communication APIs, a modern omnichannel contact centre, and a conversational AI platform hosted on the cloud. We are a Series D company valued at $100 million with $60 million in ARR.

What will you do

  • Influence the product roadmap as a technical leader
  • Exploration and adoption of new technologies to improve system reliability and efficiency.
  • Technical guidance and mentoring to the Project teams on architecture and design.
  • Help enforce and/or tweak SLAs for existing deployments to improve efficiency.
  • Build and improve, and enforce processes to improve efficiency.
  • Build and guide the team for operational excellence.
  • Stakeholder management
  • Mentor junior engineers in the team.

What do we look for

Must Haves

  • 8+ years of experience in the VoIP domain.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Solid knowledge of VoIP domain technologies, including SIP, SDP, RTP, RTCP.
  • Solid knowledge of IP networking concepts, including L2/L3 routing, Subnets, VLANs,and NAT traversal.
  • Solid knowledge of network impairments and their impact on call quality.
  • Experience leading project teams to deliver critical software solutions.
  • 6+ years of experience in building high-availability, scalable and fault-tolerant VoIP systems.
  • 4+ years of experience in working with server-side VoIP applications like Asterisk, Kamailio or equivalent
  • 3+ years of experience in working with a major cloud platform like AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure.
  • 2+ years of experience in the design and development of REST-based microservices.
  • Experience in programming with one of Golang (preferred), Ruby, C/C++
  • Experience in scripting with shell and Python
  • Experience with data stores such as MySQL, Postgres
  • Good understanding of data structures, multi-threading and concurrency concepts.
  • Proficiency in working in a Linux environment
  • Experience working in Agile SDLC process
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Team player, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment
  • A DevOps mindset. You own what you will develop.

Good to Have

  • Experience with custom development on Asterisk/Freeswitch/Kamailio/Opensips is a plus
  • Experience with SIPp or any other SIP testing tools
  • Experience with ISDN, WebRTC technologies
  • Experience with Elastic Search queries and visualisation tools like Grafana, Kibana
  • Experience with DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Git
  • Experience with monitoring frameworks like Nagios, Prometheus
  • Experience with developing Android, iOS-based VoIP clients
  • Experience with Java, JavaScript languages

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