Principal Platform Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

The Principal Platform Engineer leads the reliability and production operation of kAIgentic's regulated AI platform, guiding a team of engineers and partnering with architects to ship and sustain multi‑tenant services. The role also serves as the technical voice to banking customers and regulators, ensuring compliance, security, and high‑availability standards.

Role Snapshot

• Lead platform reliability for regulated workloads
• Build and scale a high‑performing engineering team
• Partner with architects to move designs into production
• Own SLOs, on‑call, and incident discipline
• Represent platform to banking customers and regulators
• Drive SRE, DevOps, security, and observability best practices
• Mentor next‑generation technical leaders

Must-Have Requirements

• Go
• Python
• Reliability engineering (SRE)
• Multi‑tenant platform design
• CI/CD & DevOps
• Observability
• Security & compliance for banking
• Production reliability for regulated B2B platforms
• Leadership of engineering teams
• Collaboration with architects

Nice-to-Have Signals

• AI workflow orchestration
• LLM integration
• Distributed AI system experience
• AI workflow and LLM integration
• Enterprise AI platform development
• Enterprise AI

Work Setup

• Location: Bengaluru, India
• Work mode: HYBRID
• Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility
• Education requirement
• Certifications
• Travel

What You'll Likely Work On

• Own end‑to‑end production reliability for a regulated, five‑nine workload, including availability, SLOs, on‑call, and incident response
• Collaborate with architects to transition platform designs into live services, ensuring multi‑tenant isolation and observability
• Run the engineering floor daily, setting delivery cadence and preventing single‑point dependencies
• Grow and coach a layer of technical leaders, embedding engineering rigor as the organization scales
• Serve as the senior technical authority across DevOps, SRE, security, and quality, handling escalations
• Present platform resilience and continuity to banking customers and regulators, answering risk and compliance queries

Good Fit If You Have

• Proven leadership of production‑grade B2B platforms in regulated environments
• Strong communication with executives, customers, and regulators
• Entrepreneurial mindset tackling zero‑to‑one problems
• AI‑native development velocity as a core working mode