What you will do
- Design, develop, and evolve cloud platform capabilities following engineering best practices while leveraging AI-assisted development tools where appropriate;
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, resilient, and maintainable platform services;
- Prototype and validate architectural solutions to establish a solid technical foundation for future platform development;
- Own the long-term evolution of the platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, operational excellence, and an outstanding developer experience;
- Own the technical health of the platform, including reliability, scalability, performance, quality, and engineering velocity;
- Perform code reviews focused on architecture, maintainability, security, and implementation quality;
- Drive continuous improvements through refactoring, performance optimization, and technical debt reduction;
- Mentor software engineers by promoting engineering best practices, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing;
- Identify technical bottlenecks and lead initiatives that improve engineering effectiveness and developer productivity;
- Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to evaluate technical opportunities, trade-offs, and implementation constraints;
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, cloud services, and engineering practices that strengthen the platform;
- Communicate technical designs through documentation, architecture diagrams, design reviews, and technical discussions;
- Contribute to technical documentation and long-term engineering knowledge sharing.
Must haves
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant technical leadership experience;
- Strong hands-on experience designing, building, and operating AWS-based production platforms;
- Experience designing platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and developer experience;
- Deep expertise with AWS services, including EC2, Auto Scaling, EKS, ECS, Lambda, VPC, ALB, NLB, Route 53, PrivateLink, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager;
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes;
- Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent technologies;
- Experience implementing logging, monitoring, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, or similar tools;
- Experience analyzing, optimizing, and managing AWS infrastructure costs;
- Strong programming experience with Java, Python, or Go;
- Strong understanding of Distributed Systems, cloud networking, scalability, and highly available architectures;
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills;
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across distributed engineering teams;
- Upper-intermediate English level.
Nice to haves
- Experience building internal platform services or developer platforms;
- Experience with cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks;
- Experience improving developer experience through platform automation and self-service tooling;
- Experience leading architectural initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams;
- Experience implementing AI-assisted software development practices;
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines;
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles;
- Experience contributing to technical documentation, architecture standards, and engineering knowledge bases.
We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the architecture, evolution, and operational excellence of a large-scale cloud-native platform on AWS. You will design and build core platform capabilities using Kubernetes, Terraform, and a deep AWS services stack, including EKS, ECS, Lambda, and VPC, while owning platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience across multiple product engineering teams. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with mentoring, architectural governance, and continuous platform improvement. This is an on-site position based in Chennai, India.
About the role
The benefits of joining us
Professional growth
Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps
Competitive compensation
We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities
A selection of exciting projects
Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands
Flextime
Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.
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