Staff DevOps Engineer

Tazapay; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tazapay in Bengaluru is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to architect and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for our cross-border payments platform.

You will lead AI strategy, security and compliance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Backend, Frontend, Data and Security teams to raise reliability, security and deployment velocity.

The role requires 10+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong AWS, Terraform/CDK, Kubernetes, and scripting skills to drive platform excellence.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E/B.Tech or higher).
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infra for large-scale prod systems on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of Linux in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container security.

Responsibilities

• Make architectural tradeoffs and design scalable, reliable cloud infra.
• Mentor DevOps and platform engineers; lead by example.
• Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity and automation.
• Drive secure and compliant deployment practices (PCI-DSS, SOC2).
• Collaborate with Backend, Frontend, Data and Security teams to define platform roadmap.
• Improve platform reliability, deployment velocity and developer experience.

Skills

AWS

Linux

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Job description

TazaPay is a trade management platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce safely.

It will bring together the best technologies and financial services that are only available to the large companies today and make them accessible to the SMBs.

We are trying to address the unmet needs of millions of exporters and importers who not have access to the essential tools for doing cross-border trade such as trade protections via escrow, currency hedging and finance

Lack of trust is one of the biggest inhibitors for B2B cross border business. Buyers and sellers tend to work only with known and trusted parties thereby limiting their business opportunities. Our platform will enable access to various services for doing cross-border trade safely - such as counterparty risk assessment, trade assurance and trade protections via escrow

Our goal is to enhance trust in the trade process so that SMBs feel confident about doing more business with overseas counterparties

Our platform is cloud-based and easy to use. Our mobile and web apps simplify and digitalize every step of the process. Using our cloud-based platform, the SMBs can do more business with trusted parties in a trusted and convenient manner.

Job Description

Job Title - Staff DevOps Engineer

About Tazapay

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer 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 offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates.

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc.

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together.

Are you ready for the ride?

Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Staff Devops Engineer role

• 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 being secure and compliant (PCI-DSS, SOC2 and others)
• Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews to maintain our 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 engineering organisation

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.

Requirements

Must have

• Hands-on experience in 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
• Expert in at least 1 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 and more) 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
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current platform in terms of 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 good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, 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
• Familiarity with security standards and compliance - PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis
• Familiarity with data engineering services - Clickhouse, Dbt ETL
• Experience working for a start-up

Location - Bangalore

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