Software Development Engineer II — Infrastructure Platform

Designation: Software Development Engineer II — Infrastructure Platform

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Team: Infrastructure Planning

Responsibilities, aka, what we’d like you to deliver :

1.Ownership & Design

• Own platform components end-to-end, including design, APIs, and evolution.
• Drive design reviews, technical decisions, migrations, and upgrades.
• Evaluate open-source and managed solutions using benchmarks and cost analysis.

2.Databases & Streaming

• Own self-hosted PostgreSQL and Kafka architecture, scalability, reliability, and automation.
• Define safe standards for schema changes, migrations, client configuration, and quotas.
• Contribute to upstream codebases and build required improvements.

3.Kubernetes & Delivery

• Design and maintain EKS, service mesh, GitOps, Terraform, and Helm platforms.
• Build operators and control-plane services for stateful workloads.
• Improve deployment safety, reliability, and developer experience.

4.SRE & Observability

• Enhance SRE agents with diagnostics, operational knowledge, and intelligent data retrieval.
• Build evaluation frameworks to improve agent accuracy.
• Define SLOs, alerts, dashboards, and observability standards.

5.Team & Engineering Excellence

• Mentor SDE-1s through reviews, pairing, and design guidance.
• Drive strong engineering practices, review standards, and technical discipline.

Required Qualifications:

• 3–5 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering with significant infrastructure ownership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java for building tools and services.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including upgrades, networking, resource management, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing a self-hosted stateful system such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, including query optimization, indexing, locking, isolation, replication, and connection management.
• Proficiency in Terraform and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, and SLOs.
• Proven ability to take complex technical projects from design through production.

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