Senior Staff Engineer Infrastructure

About the role

Were looking for a Senior Staff Engineer (Infrastructure) who can drive initiatives that improve system reliability accelerate release cycles and build scalable infrastructure systems. This role is a mix of hands-on engineering technical leadership and strategy with a strong emphasis on building tools and frameworks that directly impact developer velocity and operational excellence.

What you will do

• Lead the Infrastructure Engineering team setting the technical vision and execution roadmap for reliability scalability and availability.

• Design and operate highly available fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that support mission-critical services.

• Own and evolve CI/CD release and deployment reliability with strong focus on stability rollback and blast-radius reduction.

• Drive adoption of cloud-native and distributed systems practices (Kubernetes AWS multi-region architectures service monitoring and alerting).

• Partner with engineering leaders to define and enforce SLOs SLIs error budgets and reliability standards across the organization.

• Champion best practices in incident management on-call excellence postmortems and continuous improvement.

• Lead capacity planning performance engineering and cost optimization initiatives at scale.

• Mentor senior engineers build strong on-call and operations culture and foster engineering rigor and ownership.

• Design and implement GitOps workflows for Terraform infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.

• Develop and automate one-click Disaster Recovery (DR) drill execution and validation processes.

• Establish cloud cost baselines drive optimization initiatives and implement cost reporting and governance.

• Build and automate one-click AMI rotation for Amazon EKS worker nodes to improve security and operational efficiency.

• Stabilize and optimize the Beta environment by improving reliability performance and deployment processes.

• Enhance observability by implementing comprehensive monitoring logging tracing and alerting across cloud-native platforms.
  

• 10 years in software engineering with at least 3 years in hands on site reliability roles.

• Strong expertise in Terraforms Kubernetes AWS CI/CD pipelines Spinnaker/Jenkins/ArgoCD IaC.

• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks dynamic test selection code quality gates.

• Strong coding skills in Go Python or Java (Go preferred for tooling/frameworks).

• Experience designing ephemeral environments monitoring/observability tools.

• Proven track record of leading small teams mentoring engineers and driving large-scale initiatives.

• A background in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) or any open-source software (OSS) contributions would be a huge plus. Alternatively having built something really cool to solve a difficult pain point for engineers or anything that helped ship things faster for the company or the OSS community would also be great.

• Strong communication and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
  

Life so good youd think were kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. Well love you and take care of you our promise.

• Flexible working hours. Just dont call us at 3AM we like our sleep schedule.

• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.

• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously not kidding.

• Good food games and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good youll forget the term colleagues cant be your friends.

We believe in equality. Period.

At slice we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race sex religion colour national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation age marital status veteran status medical condition disability or any other class orcharacteristic protected by the applicable law.

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with theapplicable law. Additionally we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations toqualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the jobapplication or interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits andprivileges of employment.

Come join our crew!

slice

A new bank for a new India

slices purpose is to make the world better at using money and time with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. Weve all felt how slow confusing and complicated banking can be. So were reimagining it. Were building every product from scratch to be fast transparent and feel good because we believe that the best products transcend demographics like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account slice UPI credit card slice UPI and slice business are designed to be simple rewarding and completely in your control. At slice youll get to build things youd use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

Were backed by some of the worlds leading investors including Tiger Global Insight Partners Advent International Blume Ventures and Gunosy Capital.