Senior Platform Engineer

Xeniapp, Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A global travel technology company is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance its DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of software development experience, particularly in cloud-native environments. Responsibilities include managing CI/CD platforms and building high-performance tools. A strong background in Kubernetes and API services is essential. This position offers a dynamic working environment focused on innovation and growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong software engineering background (Go/Java preferred).
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage automated CI/CD platforms.
• Build high performance cloud native tools and services.
• Champion incident response and optimise cloud costs.

Skills

Software development

Cloud-native development

Kubernetes

API services

Monitoring and alerting

Job description

Xeni is a leading global innovator in the travel industry, committed to providing seamless and delightful travel experiences across the globe.

We are a SaaS company providing travel planning, booking and exploration capabilities for travel agents to launch their own business with the click of a few buttons, corporate travelling enablement, social travel sales and embedded integration with super applications. Our services are powering several hundred agencies already and we are in the next phase of our company’s growth to extend and grow our current capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• DevOps and SRE Practices:
  • Design implement and manage automated CI/CD platforms
  • Standardise and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
  • Observability framework implementation, Security and shift left mindset
• Frameworks and Tools:
  • Build high performance cloud native tools and services(Internal Dev Platforms, custom operators etc)
  • Build frameworks for development workflows(CI/CD) and platforms for managing containerized workloads across environments
  • Reduce toil through automation for all the platform productions
• Reliability with Scale(SRE)
  • Build auto healing systems and chaos engineering
  • Scale and manage distributed system
  • Champion incident response(On call rotation/blameless postmortems
  • Optimise cloud costs(FinOps), cloud security and scalability.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong software engineering background (Go/Java preferred).
• Cloud-native development (AWS/GCP APIs, SDKs, and infra-as-code).
• Experience building internal platforms/tools (not just managing infra).
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience in designing and building API services is required.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, can-do attitude and communication skills are must.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting(Prometheus/Grafana) is a plus.

Additional notes:

• This role is not just a devops/cloud/ engineer. It requires platform mindset and building reusable scalable infrastructure
• Look for candidates who bridges development and operations, not ops focused.
• Passion and curiosity to learn new technologies and languages and patterns to improve security, availability, performance and new capabilities quickly.
• Previous experience working in startups is also very helpful along with a can-do attitude.