Staff DevOps Engineer

Easiertrades Pte. Ltd.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A cross-border payment service provider is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to build scalable and secure cloud infrastructure in Bangalore. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in DevOps with strong expertise in AWS, automation languages like Go or Python, and a solid foundation in distributed systems. You will lead a team, drive security practices, and enhance system reliability while contributing to an innovative product used by thousands of customers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with AWS for large-scale production systems.
• Expertise in at least one of Go, Python or shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and lead engineering teams.
• Drive security and compliance in infrastructure.

Skills

AWS services expertise

Linux knowledge

Distributed systems understanding

Automation languages (Go, Python)

CI/CD tooling experience

Container infrastructure knowledge

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

10+ years experience in relevant roles

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Title

Staff DevOps Engineer

About Tazapay

Tazapay is a cross‑border payment service provider that offers local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts, and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay provides a compliance framework to handle local regulations. This reduces transaction costs, increases FX transparency, and raises authorization rates.

They are licensed and backed by leading investors. www.tazapay.com

What’s exciting

This is an opportunity to join a growing team before the company’s launch. You will help build a product that thousands of customers use and pay for.

About the Staff DevOps Engineer role

Responsibilities (Not exhaustive)

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault‑tolerant cloud infrastructure
• Be a role model for DevOps and platform engineers, mentor engineers
• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams
• Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity, infrastructure automation and operational efficiency
• Drive infrastructure and deployment practices while maintaining security and compliance (PCI‑DSS, SOC2, etc.)
• Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews to uphold high engineering standards
• Partner with engineering and product management teams to define and execute the platform roadmap
• Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable and extensible infrastructure design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross‑functional teams (Backend, Frontend, Data, Security, QA, etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve platform reliability, developer experience, deployment velocity and operational excellence
• Engage in capacity and demand planning, system performance analysis, tuning and cost optimization
• Lead production outages, incident response, post‑mortems and drive SRE practices across the organization

The Ideal Candidate Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E/B.Tech or higher) with 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles for large distributed systems in reputed organizations
• Hands‑on experience designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure for large‑scale production systems on AWS
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, systems internals and asynchronous architectures
• Expertise in at least one of the following languages for automation and tooling: Go, Python, shell scripting
• Extensive experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF, etc.)
• Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and GitOps tools
• Hands‑on experience with observability stacks – Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing and log aggregation
• Experience with container infrastructure – Docker, container runtimes and image security
• Experience administering and operating RDBMS/NoSQL systems at scale, such as Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
• Ability to design and operate low‑latency services behind load balancers and API gateways
• Strong understanding of system performance, scaling and reliability engineering
• Excellent communication, sharp analytical skills, proven design abilities, and strategic thinking for growth and stability
• Experience with microservice architecture and service‑to‑service communication patterns
• Continuously refactor infrastructure and tooling to ensure high‑quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute platform releases with predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things and solving challenging problems

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with fintech and payments
• Expert level proficiency with Kubernetes in production
• Prior experience operating infrastructure for stablecoins, blockchain or cryptocurrency platforms
• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Familiarity with security standards and compliance – PCI‑DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis
• Familiarity with data engineering services – ClickHouse, dbt ETL
• Experience working in a start‑up
• Location – Chennai/Bangalore (preferred)

Location

Bangalore

Join our team and let’s groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!