Staff Engineer, Software

Location: Bangalore, India

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

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Position Summary

We are seeking a Staff Engineer – DevOps to provide technical leadership in designing and advancing secure, reliable, scalable, and automated platforms supporting mission-critical software products.

This is a senior hands-on engineering role responsible for platform architecture, Linux systems engineering, AWS infrastructure, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, software packaging and distribution, networking, security, and production reliability.

The Staff Engineer will define technical direction, establish engineering standards, solve complex and cross-cutting technical challenges, mentor engineers, and drive platform improvements across teams while remaining hands-on with critical engineering work.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the technical direction and architecture for secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud and platform solutions.
• Architect and guide AWS networking and security solutions including VPCs, subnets, routing, Transit Gateway, VPC endpoints, DNS, VPN, Direct Connect, AWS Network Firewall, security groups, network ACLs, and private/hybrid connectivity.
• Design reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation patterns for multi-account and multi-environment deployments.
• Establish engineering standards for Infrastructure as Code, state management, testing, code review, drift detection, policy enforcement, and controlled infrastructure changes.
• Architect and advance CI/CD platforms, build workflows, release processes, and deployment automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and related technologies.
• Define scalable approaches for software build, packaging, validation, artifact management, promotion, release, and deployment.
• Define and improve Linux software packaging and distribution approaches, including installation, upgrade, rollback, dependency management, and software distribution, particularly for Debian-based systems.
• Provide technical leadership for Linux platform engineering across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Define and improve configuration management and infrastructure automation using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies.
• Define and improve containerization and orchestration solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Drive platform reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, resilience engineering, and automation.
• Establish and promote security practices for IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management, logging, compliance, network security, and least privilege.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex problems across Linux, AWS, networking, CI/CD, packaging, infrastructure, and application deployment layers.
• Provide technical leadership during complex production incidents, driving troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, resolution, and preventive improvements.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and develop innovative solutions to complex and ambiguous engineering problems.
• Lead technical design and architecture reviews and influence engineering practices across teams.
• Mentor and coach engineers, provide technical guidance, and strengthen the overall engineering capability of the team.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure, security, and leadership teams to drive platform strategy and continuous improvement.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10–15 years of experience in DevOps, Linux Systems Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related technical role.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, designing platform solutions, solving complex infrastructure problems, leading technical initiatives, and mentoring engineers.

Core Competencies

• Deep hands-on expertise in Linux systems engineering and administration, particularly Debian and Debian-derived distributions such as Ubuntu.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, system services, process management, permissions, networking, storage, file systems, system configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience with Debian (.deb) packaging, APT, dpkg, dependency management, and software distribution workflows.
• Proven experience architecting and operating AWS platforms, including networking, security, firewalls, and private/hybrid connectivity.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, including reusable architecture and automated provisioning.
• Strong experience architecting and improving CI/CD, build, packaging, release, and deployment automation using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Strong experience with configuration management, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Proficiency with Bash, Python, or similar languages for platform automation and troubleshooting.
• Exceptional troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across Linux, infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and software delivery.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and architectural decision-making, with the ability to influence engineering direction across teams.
• Ability to develop practical and innovative solutions to complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional technical challenges.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills, with the ability to develop engineers and raise engineering standards across the team.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, infrastructure, security, and leadership teams.