SDE 2 - Infrastructure Engineering

Seekho; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Seekho is hiring for a senior platform engineer to build and own a zero-to-one platform for internal developers. You will craft self-service provisioning, standard templates, and golden paths to accelerate ideas into production.

You’ll lead modernization efforts, consolidate tooling, and ensure security-first, cost-conscious decisions across the stack. You’ll work hands-on across infrastructure, networking, and runtime while mentoring teams and defining architectural direction in an early-stage

Qualifications

• You’ve built platforms before - designed and shipped developer-facing or internal platforms that teams adopted.
• Deep, first-principles understanding of infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability, reliability, and scalability.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure modernization and transformation work.
• Platform-as-a-product mindset - defined golden paths and self-service capabilities.
• Security-first and cost-conscious instincts baked into how you build.
• Lead architectural initiatives end to end - propose, align, deliver, own the outcome.
• Strong coding ability in Python, Java, or Go.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, scope, and pace of an early-stage team.

Responsibilities

• Build the platform from zero-to-one with self-service provisioning, templates, and golden paths.
• Lead modernization and transformation to scale infrastructure and tooling.
• Own full stack platform concerns: infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability.
• Treat the platform as a product; communicate with engineers to reduce friction and iterate.
• Stay hands-on—this is a coding role, not just roadmap work.
• Be security-first and cost-conscious from day one, with guardrails and policy-as-code.

Job description

Why this team exists

We run a growing portfolio of consumer businesses - Seekho at scale, alongside several younger products still finding their shape. The reason to build them under one roof is leverage: a new product should launch with login, payments, and notifications already working, and spend its first year on the thing only they can build.

What you’ll do:

• Build the platform from zero-to-one. Design and ship the IDP - self-service provisioning, paved roads, templates, and golden paths - so product engineers can go from idea to production without filing tickets or waiting on you.
• Lead modernization and transformation as we scale: untangle the early scrappy infra, re-platform whats holding us back, and consolidate tooling before it sprawls.
• Own the full stack of platform concerns end to end - infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability, reliability, and scalability. At our size you’ll touch all of it, often the same week.
• Treat the platform as a product. Your customers are our engineers. Talk to them, find the friction, prioritize ruthlessly, ship, measure adoption, repeat.
• Be security-first and cost-obsessed from day one. Build guardrails, policy-as-code, and least-privilege defaults in early - and keep our cloud bill honest. Cost efficiency is a feature, not an afterthought.
• Lead architecture decisions for the org: write the design docs, make the calls, and bring the team along. You set the engineering bar through example and mentorship.
• Stay hands-on. This is a coding role. You’ll be in the codebase, not just the roadmap.

Must Have:

• You’ve built platforms before - actually designed and shipped developer-facing or internal platforms that teams adopted, not just operated someone else’s infra.
• Deep, first-principles understanding of infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability, reliability, and scalability - across the board, not one narrow lane.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure modernization and transformation work.
• A real platform-as-a-product mindset - you’ve defined golden paths and self-service capabilities driven by what users actually need.
• Security-first and cost-conscious instincts baked into how you build.
• You can lead architectural initiatives end to end - propose, align, deliver, own the outcome.
• Strong coding ability in Python, Java, or Go.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, scope, and the pace of an early-stage team - you'd rather ship and iterate than wait for perfect.