Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers, replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact.
• Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes.
• Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers.
• Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams.
• Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams.
• Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross-region execution from Bengaluru.
• Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• 12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements.
• Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness.
• Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems.
• Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime.
• Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design documents and trade-off analysis.
• Experience mentoring engineers at various career stages.
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
• Familiarity with operations culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience validating large-scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control-plane behavior.
• Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.
• Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.
• Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross-region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.
• Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.
• Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.
• 3+ years of experience with Go.