Staff Platform Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes
First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026.
About SolarSquare :
At SolarSquare we are building the Home-Energy brand of future India. We help homes switch to rooftop solar and move away from traditional coal electricity. We are a full-stack D2C residential solar brand - designing, installing, maintaining (after-sales), and financing solar systems for home-owners across India.
In a few short years we have scaled to become the leading residential solar brand in India. We are obsessed with quality, customer service, and innovating to make it simple for homes to switch to solar. We are looking for leaders to join us in this mission.
About the role :
As a Staff Engineer on Platform, you own the developer and infrastructure platform the entire engineering org builds on - cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and the internal tooling that eliminates mundane, repeated work. You set the direction for how we run software at scale, and you stay hands-on doing it.
What you'll own :
- Design and operate a cloud-native platform (Kubernetes-based) and the paved-road tooling teams build on.
- Own CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and developer experience - automate the mundane so engineers focus on impact.
- Drive reliability and SRE practices : observability, incident response, and root-cause fixes that stick.
- Optimize for performance, cost, and security as first-class concerns across the platform.
- Build internal developer-platform capabilities and standards that make the right way the easy way; mentor across pods.
Tech Stack : We run on AWS with Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, and Kafka.
What we're looking for :
- 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles, with deep distributed-systems fundamentals.
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong observability and reliability practice across service boundaries; you measure, then improve.
- A track record building internal platforms or developer tooling that others adopt.
- Attention to performance, cost, and security as first-class concerns.
- Customer-obsessed and impact-led : you start from the customer's pain and judge yourself by the metric your work moves, not the tickets you close.
- High agency : you don't wait to be told - you spot problems, pick them up, and own the outcome through to production.
- Craft over shortcuts : you fix root causes rather than symptoms, clear tech debt as you go, and don't ship bugs.
- Bias for speed and simplicity : you build once for reuse, automate the mundane, and let AI draft the first pass so your judgment goes where it matters.
- Data-driven : you reach for evidence over assumptions and let results guide the next decision.
Bonus points :
- Experience with internal developer platforms (IDP), self-service infrastructure, or DevEx initiatives.
- Cost-optimization or large-scale reliability engineering experience.
- Comfort building automation and agents that remove operational toil.
Why you'll love building here :
- Direct ownership of high-impact initiatives with visible customer and business outcomes.
- An AI-native engineering culture with first-class tooling and internal agents.
- A high-agency, low-bureaucracy environment where you debate what's right and ship.
- A meritocracy where growth and recognition track impact, not tenure.
- Competitive compensation.
- A front-row seat to putting clean energy on millions of Indian rooftops.
Skills
DevOps, Site Reliability, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD Pipeline, Terraform, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, Kafka