# Platform Engineer

Requirements: Vector Database Engines: Deep expertise in specialized vector databases (e. g., Vespa, Qdrant, Milvus) and familiarity with vector extensions in traditional DBs (e. g., pgvector). Distributed Systems: Strong foundation in distributed indexing, sharding strategies, and consistency models (e. g., Raft consensus, Paxos). Infrastructure: Kubernetes (AKS/GKE), Helm, and Terraform for large-scale, automated infrastructure provisioning and infra scaling automation, etc. Performance Engineering: Experience with low-latency search optimizations, quantization (product quantization, HNSW indexing, and BM25+ vector search optimization), and caching strategies. Monitoring and Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger/Tempo (distributed tracing), and custom automation for health checks. Languages: Go/Rust (for performance-critical core platform components) and Python (for client SDKs and DS integration). ML Lifecycle Integration: Make vector databases available for various use cases at scale, like similarity search, vector search, RAG systems, etc. Skills Agentic AI, deep learning, Generative AI, Go, Kubernetes, Machine Learning, ML Platform, MLflow, platform, Python, Rust, Terra

- **Id**: 3810812
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flipkart-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T14:35:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T14:35:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1237
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marketplaces, Online Groceries

## Company

- **Id**: 2722
- **Name**: Flipkart
- **Domain**: flipkart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flipkart>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: TurboHire

## Technologies

- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Jaeger** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Milvus** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Qdrant** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Vespa** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T14:35:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: seen:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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