Senior Platform Development Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

SentiLink seeks a senior software engineer to own platform reliability and performance. You will write production code, profile services, and build observability tooling while collaborating with US teams on a hybrid schedule in Bangalore.

Role Snapshot

• Senior platform engineer
• SRE focus
• Hybrid (Bangalore)
• Production‑grade code
• Performance & reliability
• Cross‑team collaboration
• On‑call rotation

Must-Have Requirements

• Python or Go
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus)
• Strong written and verbal communication
• backend development
• SRE / infrastructure
• production code delivery

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Terraform / Terragrunt
• AWS
• Familiarity with cloud platforms
• Experience with IaC
• IaC / Terraform
• performance engineering

Work Setup

• Location: Bangalore, India
• Work mode: HYBRID
• Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
• Timezone: late evening IST overlap with US teams
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility
• Education requirement
• Certifications
• Relocation
• Notice period
• Travel
• Security clearance
• Coding test
• Portfolio
• GitHub
• Writing sample
• Cover letter

What You'll Likely Work On

• Design, write, and ship production code to improve reliability and performance across multiple services
• Profile APIs and services under load, then implement code‑level, database, or configuration fixes
• Build and maintain observability tooling, dashboards, alerts, and distributed tracing
• Evaluate and design infrastructure solutions, weighing trade‑offs in architecture and tooling
• Collaborate with US engineering teams, providing late‑evening IST overlap for incidents and design reviews
• Write clear technical proposals, postmortems, and async updates for both engineering and non‑technical audiences
• Develop automation and test frameworks to simulate traffic and prevent regressions
• Contribute to SLIs/SLOs, incident response runbooks, and on‑call rotation
• Support cost‑optimization initiatives and research new monitoring technologies

Good Fit If You Have

• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Prior work with IaC tools such as Terraform
• Strong written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders
• Ability to work late‑evening IST overlap with US teams
• Structured execution style: breaking down ambiguous problems and surfacing blockers