Description
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on our Bengaluru/India team, you will be the senior-most technical voice on the ground , setting architectural direction for our Kubernetes platform, driving the hardest reliability and scaling problems to resolution, and partnering with Staff/Principal engineers on our US and India teams to keep our global platform strategy coherent.
Responsibilities:
- Owning the architecture and evolution of our Kubernetes platform for the Bengaluru/India team , cluster strategy, multi-tenancy, networking, and security posture , in close coordination with counterparts in the US and India
- Leading the technical design and rollout of self-service platform capabilities, golden paths, and self-healing patterns that let internal teams ship and operate workflows without deep platform expertise
- Driving the platform's readiness to host AI-driven internal workflows reliably at scale , model serving, GPU scheduling, and orchestration infrastructure
- Taking ownership of the hardest, highest-ambiguity reliability problems: complex production incidents, capacity and scaling challenges, and cross-system failure modes
- Participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation shared with SRE peers in the US and India, and driving root-cause resolution and postmortems for the incidents you own
- Setting technical standards for SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practice, and holding the team accountable to them
- Improving SDLC processes for infrastructure-as-code, including CI/CD pipeline maturity and change/release management
- Mentoring engineers across the team and raising the technical bar through design reviews, architecture discussions, and hands-on pairing
- Partnering with architects, security, and product engineering teams to align infrastructure decisions with the business's reliability, security, and delivery needs
- Representing the Bengaluru/India team in global platform architecture discussions, working as a peer with Staff/Principal-level engineers in the US and India
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a track record of staff-level technical leadership
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Kubernetes at production scale , architecture, multi-tenancy, networking, security, and day-2 operations
- Experience running large-scale internal infrastructure platforms in a public cloud, preferably AWS
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions)
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar scripting and programming languages.
- Experience building or operating infrastructure that hosts AI/ML or agentic workflows , model serving, GPU scheduling, or orchestration frameworks
- Deep experience with observability platforms and monitoring tools (Grafana, Splunk, APM, or equivalent) in a large-scale environment
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and geographies without formal authority
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with experience mentoring engineers and driving technical alignment across distributed teams
- Computer Science degree or related field, or equivalent experience