Senior Platform Engineer at Backbase (Hyderabad, India)
Backbase· Hyderabad, India·
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Job description
The Platform Engineer is an infrastructure specialist focused on providing shared foundations across teams within a Value Stream. You design and deliver organization-wide SDLC technical improvements and reduce toil through automation. You act as the bridge between development needs and cost-effective infrastructure best practices
● Automation & Toil Reduction: Build complex, multi-stage workflows and automate SDLC steps using AI tools. ● Infrastructure as Code (IaaC): Lead Azure provisioning in IaaC mode and govern both local and cloud environments. ● Observability: Design and implement comprehensive frameworks that provide actionable insights into infrastructure health and application performance. ● AI Integration: Proactively explore and integrate agentic AI into engineering workflows to optimize delivery. ● Centralized Solutions: Identify recurring manual tasks across different teams and build centralized solutions to solve them once for the entire organization.
● You have 5–7+ years of experience in similar infrastructure or DevOps roles. ● You possess advanced expertise in CI/CD tooling and the organization's core full-stack technologies. ● You are a systematic problem solver capable of resolving issues that span multiple layers of technology. ● You balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability, ensuring all infrastructure is production-ready, secure, and scalable.
Why work at Backbase
- Culture: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement.
- Work model: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally.
- Perks: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one.
- Engineering focus: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots.