Platform Engineer
Kite Retail
Overview
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Location | Gurugram (Hybrid) |
| Type | Full-time |
| Level | Senior |
| Openings | 1 opening |
| Salary | Not published |
| Posted | Open |
About the role
Platform engineering at Kite Retail is production ownership: capacity, observability, and the boring work that keeps the product up. Assessed, then interviewed by a practising platform engineer.
Responsibilities
- Own reliability, capacity, and the on-call path.
- Make observability a product constraint, not a dashboard hobby.
- Partner with backend on tenancy, backpressure, and deploys.
Requirements
- 5–10 years in platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
- You have owned incidents and written the follow-through.
- Comfortable explaining capacity and failure modes to product.
Required skills
SREKubernetesObservabilityCapacity
Nice to have
- Multi-tenant SaaS operations.
- Terraform or equivalent as daily work, not a side project.
Benefits
- ₹42L – ₹62L CTC.
- Hybrid Gurugram.
- High ownership, small team.
About Kite Retail
Kite Retail runs a multi-brand storefront for urban India. Merchandising, last-mile, and a small platform team sit in one operating rhythm.
Consumer~240 people