--- title: 'Staff Platform Engineer at Hevo Data' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-platform-engineer-hevo-data-bengaluru-80fv30zzmk4q' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # Staff Platform Engineer at Hevo Data - **Company:** Hevo Data - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hevodata/272ae17d-2b06-4b62-b596-e3687b0f744d ## Job description ## About the Role Hevo's platform moves and transforms data for thousands of customers, around the clock. We're looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and observability of the infrastructure that makes that possible — a senior, hands-on engineer who can both operate at depth in AWS and Kubernetes and set technical direction for the broader Platform/DevOps function. ## What You'll Do - Own end-to-end reliability, scalability, and performance of Hevo's production infrastructure on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes - Design and evolve our observability stack — metrics, logs, traces, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and error budgets - Lead incident management: on-call rotations, blameless postmortems, and systematically reducing MTTA/MTTR - Drive infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible) and own CI/CD pipeline design - Architect and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale — upgrades, autoscaling, cost optimization, multi-tenant workloads - Own network architecture and security posture for cloud infrastructure (VPCs, load balancers, service mesh, zero-trust networking) - Partner with product engineering teams to embed reliability and operational excellence into the software lifecycle - Mentor and uplevel other platform engineers; set technical direction and engineering best practices - Own capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud infrastructure ## What We're Looking For — Must-Haves - 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering roles, including meaningful time operating at Staff/Lead level - Deep, hands-on expertise running production Kubernetes at scale - Strong AWS expertise (EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, security groups) - Proven track record building observability stacks (OTel, Grafana, Telegraf, Influx or similar) - Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Go, or Bash) - Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Ansible) - CI/CD pipeline design and ownership (Jenkins or similar) - Solid networking fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, service mesh - Experience owning on-call/incident management and driving a strong postmortem culture - Excellent communication skills — able to influence engineering decisions across teams without direct authority ## Nice to Have - ## Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud architectures - Familiarity with cost optimization / FinOps practices - Exposure to compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, GDPR) - Prior experience at a SaaS or data infrastructure company ## About Hevo Hevo is a fully-managed, no-code data pipeline platform that helps organizations move, transform, and activate their data in real time. With 150+ pre-built, battle-tested connectors, Hevo lets data teams focus on insights instead of pipeline maintenance — trusted by 2,000+ organizations globally to keep their data flowing reliably, securely, and in compliance with standards like SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA. ## About Hevo Data ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Hevo Data provides an automated, no-code data pipeline platform that enables companies to ingest, transform, and load data from 150+ sources into any data warehouse or destination. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $43M total) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with major offices in Bengaluru and Pune, India) - **Founded**: 2017 - **Founders**: Manish Jethani (Co-Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure / ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) / Data Integration - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market and enterprise companies that need to unify data from multiple SaaS, database, and file storage sources for analytics. - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build Data Platform for Data-Driven People” – helping companies access, model, and consume petabytes of data in real-time. ## Products & Services - **[Hevo Data Platform](https://hevodata.com)**: A fully managed, no-code data pipeline service that supports 150+ pre-built connectors, real-time CDC (Change Data Capture), schema drift handling, and dbt-based transformations. Available as a SaaS platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – **$46.9M** (2024, per Latka); conflicting estimate of $5M (LinkedIn, likely outdated). **Total Funding**: $43M across 4 rounds (Seed in 2017, Seed in 2019, Series A in 2020, Series B in 2021). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital India (led $30M Series B), with additional investors from earlier rounds. Recognized as a partner by Snowflake and Google Cloud. - **Growth Signals**: - Processes **1PB+ data monthly**; trusted by **2,000+ companies** worldwide. - Headcount: ~182 (LinkedIn, 2026) vs ~242 (Latka, 2026) – conflicting reports, but indicates a lean team. - Expanding into new geographies (San Francisco, Bengaluru, Pune, Singapore, Germany) and building new products. - Revenue grew from $31.2M (2023) to $46.9M (2024) per Latka. ## Competitive Advantages - **Zero-code, zero-maintenance**: Set up pipelines in minutes without engineering overhead; automatically handles schema drifts, API changes, and record failures. - **Scalability**: Handles massive data volumes (10x+ growth) without infrastructure changes, with high-throughput CDC replication. - **150+ pre-built connectors** and custom connector development service. - **End-to-end ELT** – combines extraction, loading, and dbt-based modeling in one platform with full pipeline observability. ## Strategic Focus - Continue building “Data Infrastructure as a Service” for hundreds of thousands of companies. - Invest in new product lines, geographic expansion, and open-source contributions. - CEO describes the company as “only 2% done,” emphasizing a long‑term growth trajectory. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Data‑driven, engineering‑heavy, with a “day one” mentality. Strong commitment to open‑source (engineers encouraged to open‑source components). - **Work policy**: Hybrid/office‑based – roles in San Francisco, Bengaluru, and Pune are listed as on‑site; some “Worldwide” remote options may exist but are not common. - **Notable perks**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Senior Software Engineer ~INR 4.1M/year), strong employer rating (4.1/5 on LinkedIn) with high marks for compensation (4.2) and career growth (4.1). - **Engineering culture**: Focus on low‑level data infrastructure, real‑time pipelines, and building scalable systems. Alumni have moved to top tech companies (Google, Confluent, Adobe, Fivetran). ## Sources 1. [hevodata.com](https://hevodata.com) 2. [jobs.lever.co/hevodata](https://jobs.lever.co/hevodata) 3. [linkedin.com/company/hevodata](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hevodata) 4. 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