The Role
Lead the architecture, delivery, security, reliability, and optimization of large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure. Mentor DevOps and platform engineers, drive AI-enabled automation, establish CI/CD and SRE practices, coordinate platform roadmaps across teams, and lead incident response and post-mortems. The role also owns infrastructure design, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, cost optimization, compliance, deployment velocity, and developer experience improvements.
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Job Title - Staff DevOps Engineer
About Tazapay
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?
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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 - Bangalore Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!
Your Buddy Tazapay
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, such as B.E./B.Tech or higher
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Cloud Engineering roles
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating AWS cloud infrastructure for large-scale production systems
- Deep knowledge of Linux in production environments
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, systems internals, and asynchronous architectures
- Expert proficiency in at least one automation or tooling language: Go, Python, or shell scripting
- Extensive experience with AWS services including ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, and WAF
- Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and GitOps tools
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and log aggregation
- Experience with container infrastructure, container runtimes, and image security
- Experience administering and operating RDBMS and NoSQL systems at scale, such as PostgreSQL, 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
- Excellent communication, analytical ability, critical thinking, and proven design skills
- Experience with microservice architecture and service-to-service communication patterns
- Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate, and execute platform releases predictably
- Ability to scope, review, and refine user stories for technical completeness and dependency-risk reduction
- Prior experience with fintech and payments
- Expert-level Kubernetes proficiency in production
- Experience operating infrastructure for stablecoin, blockchain, or cryptocurrency platforms
- AWS Cloud Certification
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, and static code analysis
- Familiarity with ClickHouse and dbt ETL data engineering services
- Experience working for a startup
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The Company
What We Do
Tazapay is a Singapore-based fintech company, designed to redefine the cross-border payment experience. Since its inception in 2021 by industry veterans, Tazapay has raised a successful $16.9 million Series A funding round, with significant investment from prestigious institutions such as Sequoia and the PayPal Alumni Fund. The platform allows businesses to transact with ease in 173+ countries, offering an array of card and local payment options. Its unified interface simplifies the onboarding process, allowing businesses to partner with just one entity, thereby streamlining their payment process. Tazapay continues to drive global business growth by offering a trusted and accessible platform for cross-border e-commerce transactions.
