Staff DevOps Engineer

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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!

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the salary disclosed for the Staff DevOps Engineer position at tazapay?
The salary for this Staff DevOps Engineer role at tazapay is not publicly listed. Click "Apply Now" to learn more about the compensation package on their official careers page.
Where is the Staff DevOps Engineer position at tazapay located?
This Staff DevOps Engineer role at tazapay is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Staff DevOps Engineer role at tazapay full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FULL TIME position. It is posted as a Staff DevOps Engineer role in the Engineering department at tazapay.
Which team or department does the Staff DevOps Engineer at tazapay belong to?
This Staff DevOps Engineer position is part of the Engineering department at tazapay. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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