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.

Responsibilities (Not Exhaustive)

About the Staff Devops Engineer role

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!