Senior Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive medical insurance

Flexible working hours

Tailored vacation policies

Reward system for milestones

Learning and upskilling opportunities

Good food and a cool office environment

Job summary

slice is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer (Infrastructure) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in software engineering, with a significant background in site reliability. You will lead the Infrastructure Engineering team, improve system reliability, and design fault-tolerant systems.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering and team leadership, driving initiatives that enhance developer velocity and operational excellence. A flexible work environment and extensive medical benefits are included.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with at least 3 years in site reliability roles.
• Experience with automation frameworks and test selection.
• Proven track record of leading teams and initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineering team.
• Design fault-tolerant infrastructure systems.
• Own CI/CD processes with a focus on stability.

Skills

Software engineering

Site reliability engineering

Go

Python

Java

Cloud-native systems

CI/CD

Team leadership

Performance engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Monitoring tools

Job description

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the team

Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you’ve opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we’re trying to build a world class product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ‘;’ in your code, they got your back till the code runs successfully.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Engineer (Infrastructure) who can drive initiatives that improve system reliability, accelerate release cycles, and build scalable infrastructure systems. This role is a mix of hands‑on engineering, technical leadership, and strategy, with a strong emphasis on building tools and frameworks that directly impact developer velocity and operational excellence.

What You Will Do

• Lead the Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineering team, setting the technical vision and execution roadmap for reliability, scalability, and availability.
• Design and operate highly available, fault‑tolerant infrastructure systems that support mission‑critical services.
• Own and evolve CI/CD, release, and deployment reliability with strong focus on stability, rollback, and blast‑radius reduction.
• Drive adoption of cloud‑native and distributed systems practices (Kubernetes, AWS, multi‑region architectures, service monitoring and alerting).
• Partner with engineering leaders to define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability standards across the organization.
• Champion best practices in incident management, on‑call excellence, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
• Lead capacity planning, performance engineering, and cost optimization initiatives at scale.
• Mentor senior engineers, build strong on‑call and operations culture, and foster engineering rigor and ownership.

What You Will Need

• 10+ years in software engineering with at least 3 years in hands‑on site reliability roles.
• Hands‑on experience with test automation frameworks, dynamic test selection, code quality gates.
• Strong coding skills in Go, Python, or Java (Go preferred for tooling/frameworks).
• Experience designing ephemeral environments, monitoring/observability tools.
• Proven track record of leading small teams, mentoring engineers, and driving large‑scale initiatives.
• A background in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) or any open‑source software (OSS) contributions would be a huge plus. Alternatively, having built something really cool to solve a difficult pain point for engineers or anything that helped ship things faster for the company or the OSS community would also be great.
• Strong communication and ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders.

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.
• Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.