Lead Engineer – Reliability & Observability

Cybrilla Technologies Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cybrilla Technologies Private Limited seeks a Lead Engineer to own and evolve our Reliability & Observability platform. You will scale metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards and alerting across multi-tenant environments, collaborating with product and cloud teams.

This hands-on leadership role requires 7+ years of experience, strong ELK/Grafana/Loki, AWS, Kubernetes, and automation-first mindset. You will mentor engineers, define SLOs, and drive incident response improvements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software/platform engineering or SRE experience.
• Hands-on with ELK, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger.
• Strong AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Programming in Go, Java, Python or similar; automation-first mindset.
• Ability to design and scale production observability platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own, scale and continuously improve our observability stack (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting).
• Establish SLO frameworks, error-budget reporting and production-readiness standards.
• Build self-service observability capabilities and reusable dashboards for engineering teams.
• Drive incident-management tooling, playbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational toil and enable resilient system design.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers on reliability challenges.

Skills

Observability engineering

Distributed systems

Programming (Go/Java/Python)

Automation

Incident response

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Grafana

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

We're looking for first-principles thinkers who take ownership, and aren't afraid to build from scratch.

If you thrive in ambiguity, value deep learning and expertise over fluff, bring bold ideas to the table, and believe great work happens through collaboration—join us!

\" Cybrilla is built by highly skilled knowledge workers who thrive on intellectual stimulation. We give them meaningful work and, in turn, they take ownership of their growth.

Satish Co-founder

\" We move fast, solve hard problems and push boundaries. Cybrilla isn’t for comfort seekers. If you're driven, adaptable and ready to create real impact, this is your chance to be part of a challenging but rewarding journey.

Anchal Co-founder

\" We spend a lot of time to understand our customers, build tailored solutions, and help them solve real business use cases. You will have a great time at Cybrilla if you enjoy taking work ownership and cracking complex deals.

Piyush Business & Partnerships

\" There’s true freedom to experiment here — with tools, design systems, colours, and ideas. The work I do is not just about completing tasks, but about understanding the 'why' behind every decision. That kind of trust and creative space has shaped me into a better designer and developer.

Tech team

\" Decisions do not trickle down through layers of hierarchy here. The co-founders are always accessible and it feels like I’m sitting right next to them, discussing ideas in real time. We're not just fixing pieces of the puzzle – we understand the business and products in their entirety.

Madhavan Tech Team

\" For me, working at Cybrilla has always meant figuring things out as we go, learning by doing, and solving problems that actually make a difference. There’s a lot of trust here — space to try new things, experiment, fail, and grow. And the team? Always game for a good challenge. That’s what makes it fun.

Customer Success Team

\" Problem-solving is at the core of what we do. Everyone is expected to get their hands dirty—there are plenty of challenges to tackle, and each person gets a share of the problem-solving pie.

Product Team

\" We take the time to truly understand what our customers are up against and work with them to find smarter solutions for their unique use cases. When they win, we win. Through curiosity, sharp questions, and trust-building, we show up as real partners, not just a support team.

Customer Success team

\" Cybrilla is built by highly skilled knowledge workers who thrive on intellectual stimulation. We give them meaningful work and, in turn, they take ownership of their growth.

Satish Co-founder

\" We move fast, solve hard problems and push boundaries. Cybrilla isn’t for comfort seekers. If you're driven, adaptable and ready to create real impact, this is your chance to be part of a challenging but rewarding journey.

Anchal Co-founder

\" We spend a lot of time to understand our customers, build tailored solutions, and help them solve real business use cases. You will have a great time at Cybrilla if you enjoy taking work ownership and cracking complex deals.

Piyush Business & Partnerships

\" There’s true freedom to experiment here — with tools, design systems, colours, and ideas. The work I do is not just about completing tasks, but about understanding the 'why' behind every decision. That kind of trust and creative space has shaped me into a better designer and developer.

Tech team

\" Decisions do not trickle down through layers of hierarchy here. The co-founders are always accessible and it feels like I’m sitting right next to them, discussing ideas in real time. We're not just fixing pieces of the puzzle – we understand the business and products in their entirety.

Madhavan Tech Team

\" For me, working at Cybrilla has always meant figuring things out as we go, learning by doing, and solving problems that actually make a difference. There’s a lot of trust here — space to try new things, experiment, fail, and grow. And the team? Always game for a good challenge. That’s what makes it fun.

Customer Success Team

\" Problem-solving is at the core of what we do. Everyone is expected to get their hands dirty—there are plenty of challenges to tackle, and each person gets a share of the problem-solving pie.

Product Team

\" We take the time to truly understand what our customers are up against and work with them to find smarter solutions for their unique use cases. When they win, we win. Through curiosity, sharp questions, and trust-building, we show up as real partners, not just a support team.

Customer Success team

How We Work Together

1.

First-Principles Thinking

We dive deep and question everything. No surface-level solutions, no band-aids, no 'that's how it's always been done.' We're not here to make small tweaks - we're here to fundamentally change the game.

2.

We keep things straightforward—whether it’s code, communication, or decision-making. This helps us create an environment where trust runs deep and ideas flow freely.

3.

We approach problems with curiosity and depth, and learn through experimentation—small, iterative tests that lead to lasting solutions.

4.

Ownership

Take initiative, make mistakes, learn from them, and grow—what matters is that you're driving toward meaningful results. We value steady progress and meaningful impact over mindless hustle.

5.

We question the status quo and challenge the old ways of doing things. We’re not here to play it safe—we’re here to disrupt a 30-year-old industry and that requires bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and a challenger mindset.

6.

Shared Purpose

We trust that everyone at Cybrilla is working toward the same goal. Alignment may differ at times, but mutual trust keeps us moving forward as a team.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to own and significantly advance our Reliability & Observability platform. We already have an established observability stack, including ELK, Grafana, Loki and monitoring dashboards. As our multi-tenant platform scales across multiple deployment sites and environments, you will drive the next phase of its evolution, making it easier for engineering teams to understand, monitor and improve the reliability of the systems they build.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. You will own and evolve our observability stack, establish reliability engineering standards and drive automation across our production environment. You will work closely with product/application engineering, cloud infrastructure and security teams to build resilient, self-operating systems across an increasingly complex distributed infrastructure.

What You'll Own

• Observability Platform: Own, scale and continuously improve our existing metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards and alerting infrastructure to support increasing platform scale, multiple deployment sites and multi-tenant environments.
• Reliability Engineering: Establish SLO frameworks, error-budget reporting, production-readiness standards and reliability engineering best practices.
• Developer Enablement: Build self-service observability capabilities, standardized instrumentation, reusable dashboards and actionable alerting for engineering teams.
• Incident Management: Establish incident-management tooling, escalation processes, runbooks and post-incident review practices. Drive improvements that prevent recurring incidents.
• Automation: Eliminate operational toil through automation, intelligent alerting, automated remediation and resilient system design.
• Technical Leadership: Own the architecture and roadmap for Reliability & Observability, mentor engineers and collaborate with other engineering teams on cross-cutting reliability challenges.

Application teams own their services, and cloud infrastructure engineers own the underlying infrastructure. Your role is to provide the shared capabilities, standards and engineering expertise that help them operate reliably.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering or SRE experience, including operating business‑critical production systems at high scale and complexity.
• Strong experience with observability technologies such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger or equivalent platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, networking and distributed systems.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Go, Java, Python or similar languages, with an automation‑first mindset.
• Experience designing, scaling and improving production observability platforms, effective monitoring, alerting, SLOs and incident‑management practices.
• A solid understanding of distributed‑system failure modes, scalability, fault tolerance and production debugging.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and cloud‑native architectures.
• Ability to drive technical initiatives independently, make sound architectural decisions and influence engineering teams without relying on organizational authority.

Good to Have

• Experience operating high‑availability, multi‑tenant SaaS platforms, particularly in fintech or other regulated environments.
• Experience designing observability architectures for geographically distributed infrastructure, multiple Kubernetes clusters and isolated tenant environments.
• Experience with large‑scale telemetry pipelines, observability cost optimization and high‑cardinality metrics.
• Experience with chaos engineering, resilience testing and automated incident remediation.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self‑service engineering tools.

Above all, we are looking for an engineer who enjoys building reliable platforms, not just maintaining monitoring tools.

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 Cybrilla

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