Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Title - Staff DevOps Engineer

About Tazapay

• Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections
• via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The
• merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the
• additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and
• requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and
• higher auth rates
• They are licensed and backed by leading investors. www.tazapay.com
• What’s exciting waiting for you?
• This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket
• ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have
• the unique experience of building something ground up and have the
• satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of
• customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software
• Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc.
• We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together.
• Are you ready for the ride?
• Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Staff Devops Engineer role

Responsibilities (Not exhaustive)

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant cloud infrastructure
• Be a role model for DevOps and platform engineers, mentor engineers
• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams
• Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity, infrastructure automation

and operational efficiency

• Drive infrastructure and deployment practices while being secure and compliant (PCI-DSS, SOC2 and others)
• Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews to maintain our high engineering standards
• Partner with engineering and product management teams to define and execute the platform roadmap
• Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable and extensible infrastructure design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables,

risks, changes and dependencies

• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Backend, Frontend, Data,

Security, QA etc.) on planning and execution

• Continuously improve platform reliability, developer experience, deployment velocity and operational excellence
• Engage in capacity and demand planning, system performance analysis, tuning and cost optimization
• Lead production outages, incident response, post-mortems and drive SRE

practices across the engineering organisation

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E/B.Tech or higher) with 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles for large distributed systems in reputed organizations. Requirements Must have
• Hands-on experience in designing, building and operating cloud infrastructure for large scale production systems on AWS
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, systems internals and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages for automation and tooling: go, python, shell scripting
• Extensive experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS,

Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF and more)

• Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,

Jenkins, and GitOps tools

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing and log aggregation
• Experience with container infrastructure - Docker, container runtimes and image security
• Experience administering and operating RDBMS/NoSQL systems at scale, such as Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
• Ability to design and operate low latency services behind load balancers and API gateways
• Strong understanding of system performance, scaling and reliability engineering
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current platform in terms of growth and stability
• Experience with microservice architecture and service-to-service communication patterns
• Continuously refactor infrastructure and tooling to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute platform releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems

Nice to have

• Prior experience with fintech and payments
• Expert level proficiency with Kubernetes in production
• Prior experience operating infrastructure for stablecoins, blockchain or cryptocurrency platforms
• AWS Cloud Certifications
• Familiarity with security standards and compliance - PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis
• Familiarity with data engineering services - Clickhouse, Dbt ETL
• Experience working for a start-up

Location - Chennai/Bangalore

Location - Bangalore

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and

opportunity!

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