Staff Platform Software Engineer

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY

EarnIn is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the strategic design, automation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure. This role involves driving innovation in cloud operations, enabling rapid development, and scaling solutions across teams and systems. As a senior technical leader on our Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of EarnIn’s cloud platform, influencing both operational efficiency and customer experience. This is an impactful role within the organization, designed for those who excel at critically evaluating the needs of a rapidly growing company and anticipate and solve complex cloud challenges at scale. You will be hands-on, leading technical deep dives across operating systems, networks, application performance, storage, and databases, while driving high-level strategy and mentoring other engineers.

This position will ideally be hybrid from our Bengaluru office (HSR Layout) as part of our expanding site. EarnIn offers our employees excellent benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to travel to our Mountain View HQ. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Serve as a key architect and thought leader in the cloud infrastructure domain, guiding the team on best practices for building resilient, high-performance systems. Mentor and coach senior engineers across the company in advanced cloud operations practices.
• Provide oversight of hosted Linux and Windows systems, networks, databases, and applications, identifying and solving critical performance, scalability, and stability challenges across the company.
• Design and develop reusable components and operational strategies to enhance the scalability, performance, and monitoring of cloud systems. Collaborate with other senior engineers to create technical solutions that address company-wide cloud challenges.
• Lead the establishment and continuous evolution of infrastructure-as-code best practices, driving automation, self-healing, and security standards throughout the company’s cloud ecosystems.
• Drive operational cost savings through service optimizations, autoscaling strategies, and distributed processing architectures, partnering with the finance team to ensure ongoing efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including security, engineering, and business teams, to ensure that operational strategies align with company-wide objectives. Provide thought leadership in company-wide initiatives such as observability, automation, and disaster recovery.
• Continuously evaluate existing tools and processes, lead efforts to socialize, present, and implement enhancements for optimal operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain high-quality documentation on best practices, installation, provisioning, and configuration. Ensure organizational alignment on cloud operations standards.
• Participate in and lead on-call rotations, using post-mortems to guide long-term improvements to system reliability.
• Act as a liaison between cloud operations and business stakeholders, presenting technical information in an understandable format, ensuring alignment between technical decisions and business objectives.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, managing large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing distributed systems.
• Proven experience mentoring and guiding senior engineers, driving technical decisions, and leading company-wide cloud initiatives.
• Mastery of public cloud providers, specifically AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, etc.).
• Strong expertise in containerized microservices running on Kubernetes, with the ability to guide the implementation of complex, scalable solutions.
• Deep knowledge of automation and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible) with the ability to lead infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Expertise on CICD pipelines and tools, including Jenkins, GHA, Argo CD, Spinnaker & FluxCD or similar.
• Experience with advanced observability tools (DataDog, CloudWatch) and driving metrics-driven decisions across the organization.
• Track record of leading cost optimization / FinOps initiatives, performance tuning, and operational excellence projects.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, and business teams to align cloud strategies with business goals.
• Strong adherence to industry best practices around privacy and security, with a demonstrated ability to lead compliance efforts.
• Experience with advanced networking, routing, and firewall protocols, including VPN and SSL.
• Proficient in programming and scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash, with the ability to lead the creation of automated scripts for performance and operational improvements.
• Experience in cost optimization, forecasting, and budget planning for cloud services. #LI-Hybrid