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Latency, correctness and observability are not features here - they are the product.\nThat is where you come in.\nThe Role\nWe are looking for a Platform Architect to own the technical architecture of the shared foundation everything at ONDC is built on: the core network services, the internal developer platform our engineers ship through, and the multi-cloud infrastructure it all runs on.\nAt ONDC, architects build. You will write and review code, prototype the hard parts yourself, and be in the room when something breaks at 300K RPS. You will set direction through working reference implementations, RFCs and golden paths - not through mandates.\nYou sit alongside the AI Architect and Application Architect as one of a small set of architects who own a pillar each, and you partner closely with the Engineering Manager (Platform) who runs the team that builds with you.\nWhat You'll Own\nOwn the end-to-end architecture of ONDC's core services - registry, gateway, protocol handling, identity and credentialing, catalog and search paths, and the reusable shared services every Network Participant depends on.\n\nSet the contracts: API and event design (REST, gRPC, event-driven), versioning and backward-compatibility policy, idempotency and retry semantics, and the failure modes an open network has to survive.\n\nDesign for the properties that matter at this scale - p99 latency budgets, multi-tenancy and noisy-neighbour isolation, rate limiting at the edge, graceful degradation, and provable SLAs.\n\nAct as the technical gate on build-vs-reuse-vs-consolidate, stopping duplication before it ships.\n\nDefine the golden paths - service templates, scaffolding, libraries, and paved-road defaults - so a new service arrives with CI/CD, observability, security and SLOs already wired in.\n\nBuild the developer experience layer: self-service environments, deployment pipelines, secrets and config management, and runbook/on-call scaffolding.\n\nEstablish observability as a platform capability - structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing and cost/performance telemetry available by default.\n\nArchitect cloud-agnostic, portable systems across AWS / GCP / Azure - Kubernetes at the core, infrastructure as code, service mesh, API gateways and progressive delivery.\n\nOwn the non-functional architecture: capacity planning, autoscaling, DR and multi-region strategy, RTO/RPO targets, and the unit economics of running national infrastructure responsibly.\n\nAuthor RFCs, reference architectures and reusable blueprints adopted across internal teams and, where appropriate, published for Network Participants to build against.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou become the owner of ONDC's platform architecture - someone whose golden paths and reference implementations get adopted by default, and whose designs hold up at 300K RPS in production.\nWhat We're Looking For\n10+ years in software engineering, with at least 4 years architecting platforms or shared services used by many teams - and still writing code today.\n\nProven track record designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in production, reasoning about consistency vs. availability, idempotency, backpressure and cascading failure in the same conversation.\n\nDeep API and systems design judgment across REST, gRPC and event-driven architectures, including versioning and contract evolution for consumers you do not control.\n\nStrong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers and at least one major cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure), plus infrastructure as code and modern delivery practice.\n\nProduction experience with log-based brokers (Kafka or similar), relational stores (PostgreSQL or similar), caching layers and distributed-computing foundations.\n\nDemonstrated platform thinking - a history of turning repeated one-off needs into reusable building blocks that teams actually chose to adopt.\n\nObservability and operability literacy - you instrument before you ship, and have owned the dashboards that page someone at 2 a.m.\n\nFluency with agent-assisted software development as a working practice, with clear judgment on when to use it and when not to.\n\nExcellent written communication - able to write an RFC that settles an argument and influence without authority across internal teams and external participants.\n\nComfortable working in-office in Delhi NCR with a hands-on engineering team.\n\nA strong plus\nExposure to ONDC, Beckn, UPI, Account Aggregator, ULI or other India DPI rails | experience building internal developer platforms or platform governance at scale | registries, gateways, identity/credentialing systems | payments, logistics or e-commerce domains.\nThis Role Is For You If...\nYou want to architect and still write the code, not hand off designs to be built by someone else.\nYou think about golden paths and paved roads, not just individual services.\nYou'd rather earn adoption through a working reference implementation than through a mandate.\nAnd you want your work to live in the open, as public infrastructure rather than private advantage.\nWhy ONDC?\nMost architects spend a career making one company's stack a little better. This is the architecture that hundreds of companies and millions of small sellers will build on for the next decade.\nYou won't just design the platform.\nYou will still be the one debugging it at 300K RPS.\nRead more about ONDC (click to read)\nVisit our website at ondc.org\nMcKinsey Report\nOur latest newsletter","description_format":"text","description_chars":6169,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Marketplaces","Digital Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T10:24:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":55,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.736,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":30,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:1","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/open-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/open-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T06:53:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2104,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2047},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2047"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fopen-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fopen-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fopen-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/open-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fopen-network-for-digital-commerce-platform-architect"}]}