Software Engineer, Platfrom Engineering

Jobgether; United States; Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Bengaluru

Office-based collaboration initially

Flexible working model

Ownership and influence on engineering

Job summary

Jobgether in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud platform components and tooling that support the full software lifecycle. You will migrate and roll out new capabilities, improve observability, automate operations, and collaborate with SRE and Security teams while promoting best practices.

This hybrid role offers substantial ownership and opportunities to influence engineering decisions across multiple products and domains, with a

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating scalable production systems.
• Cloud provider experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Scripting with Bash, Go, or Python.
• Terraform or similar IaC tooling experience.
• Strong written communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain platform features, infra components, and tools across the full software lifecycle.
• Support migration and rollout of new platform capabilities across teams.
• Improve platform stability, availability, and security with SRE and Security teams.
• Enhance observability to reduce incidents and optimize performance.
• Automate recurring platform operations and workflows.
• Build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure for production workloads.
• Advocate for best practices and efficient development processes.
• Engage with developers to gather requirements and improve experience.
• Contribute to technical decisions and prioritization of initiatives.
• Develop practical solutions using existing tools for reliability.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting (Bash Go Python)

Terraform

Documentation

Team collaboration

Developer productivity

Platform engineering

Service mesh (Istio/Kong/Linkerd)

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Graphite

Grafana

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Istio

Kong

Linkerd

Terraform

Job description

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain platform features, infrastructure components, and engineering tools supporting the full software development lifecycle, including build, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Support the migration, rollout, and adoption of new platform capabilities, tools, and technologies across engineering teams.
• Improve platform stability, scalability, availability, and security in collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Security teams.
• Enhance service and platform observability to improve monitoring, reduce incidents, optimize performance, and manage infrastructure costs.
• Automate recurring platform operations and engineering workflows to reduce manual effort, operational complexity, and technical toil.
• Build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services that support production workloads.
• Advocate for engineering best practices, infrastructure automation, and efficient software development processes.
• Engage with internal developers and stakeholders to understand their challenges, gather requirements, and identify opportunities to improve developer experience.
• Contribute to technical decision‑making, solution design, and prioritization of platform initiatives.
• Develop practical solutions using existing tools and technologies while promoting maintainability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience developing, operating, and maintaining complex, scalable production systems, including cloud‑based platforms and infrastructure.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and in‑depth knowledge of a major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Bash, Go, or Python.
• Extensive experience implementing and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly using tools such as Terraform.
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to document technical designs and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to adapt to a dynamic engineering environment.
• Passion for improving developer productivity and experience through scalable infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering.
• Pragmatic approach to technical challenges, with an emphasis on selecting appropriate technologies and leveraging existing tools rather than unnecessarily reinventing solutions.
• Preferred qualifications: Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture; understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs); familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, or Elasticsearch; contributions to open‑source projects or communities; and production experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Kong, or Linkerd.

Benefits

• Full‑time employment.
• Hybrid work arrangement based in Bengaluru, India.
• Flexible working model with 2 days per week in the office and 3 days working remotely.
• Opportunity to work on large‑scale platform infrastructure supporting multiple products and business areas.
• Significant technical ownership and opportunities to influence engineering decisions.
• Collaborative engineering culture emphasizing innovation, continuous learning, and professional development.
• Opportunity to contribute to global engineering initiatives and work with experienced technical teams.
• Office‑based collaboration encouraged, particularly during the initial establishment of the Bengaluru office.
• Hybrid work policies reviewed periodically to accommodate evolving organizational needs.