Head of Platform Engineering

Cybrilla; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-impact platform

Work with fintech experts

Attend meetups and conferences

Job summary

A financial infrastructure company is seeking an Engineering Leader to own the non-functional pillars of their B2B SaaS platform in the financial-services domain. This hands-on role emphasizes security, performance, and scalability while reporting directly to the CTO/Founder. Responsibilities include defining monitoring frameworks and driving performance engineering. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in software engineering, preferably in FinTech. The role offers an opportunity to work with leading minds in the industry and influence tech culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with deep expertise in security, SRE, or DevOps.
• Strong working knowledge of microservices and distributed systems.
• Proven experience in security, performance, and reliability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the non-functional architecture focusing on security and reliability.
• Drive performance engineering through profiling and load testing.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and elevate engineering maturity.

Skills

Security knowledge

Performance engineering

Leadership skills

Cloud-native architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Role Summary

We are building a next-gen B2B SaaS platform in the financial-services domain (mutual funds). Our product engineering team focuses on domain modeling, operational compliance and feature development. We are now looking for an Engineering Leader who will own the non-functional pillars of the platform - security, performance, reliability, automation, observability, and engineering culture.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role, reporting to the CTO/Founder and responsible for making our platform robust, compliant, performant, scalable, and secure.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the non-functional architecture - security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience.
• Define and implement observability & monitoring frameworks (APM, logging, alerting, SLOs).
• Drive performance engineering - profiling, load testing, capacity planning, and optimization.
• Champion engineering culture - coding standards, documentation norms, design reviews, and technical excellence rituals.
• Build and lead the QA & automation strategy, including automated regression, performance testing, and CI/CD quality gates.
• Act as a technical ambassador with customers, demonstrating platform scalability, security, reliability, and participating in due‑diligence or technical evaluation discussions.
• Partner with product engineering leads to ensure features meet rigorous non-functional requirements.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and elevate overall engineering maturity.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, with deep expertise in security, SRE, QA automation, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud‑native architecture, microservices (in java, golang, ruby, nodejs, reactjs stacks), and distributed systems.
• Proven experience implementing security, performance, and reliability frameworks in a SaaS product.
• Experience in FinTech/RegTech/Financial Services is a strong plus.
• Hands‑on ability to debug, profile, harden, and optimize systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Why Join Us?

• Build a high‑impact platform in the financial services domain.
• Opportunity to work with some of the best brains in fintech and a strong product engineering team.
• Grow exponentially by working in small and transparent teams and influence tech culture.
• Increase your geek quotient by attending meetups and conferences.

About the Company

Cybrilla is a financial infrastructure company aiming to disrupt the way mutual funds work. We work with some of the largest financial institutions as well as some of the fastest growing fintechs in the country. We are decentralizing distribution and changing the face of the industry. We are a SEBI registered RTA and are co‑authoring the Mutual Fund protocol on ONDC. More details: https://cybrilla.com

Our product, Fintech Primitives (FP) is an API platform that provides solutions to the problem statements of the Indian Mutual Fund domain. The APIs abstract domain, regulatory, and technical complexities to enable customers to build different distribution use cases in a short time. More details: https://docs.fintechprimitives.com