Position: Staff Engineer – Platform Architecture

Location: Bangalore

Working Days: Monday to Friday

Experience Required: 5-8 years

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the technical architecture of our platform and drive the successful implementation of complex, distributed systems. This is a senior Individual Contributor (IC) role responsible for translating Technical Requirements Documents (TRDs) into scalable, secure, and reliable system architectures while partnering with engineering teams to ensure high-quality execution.

You will work across multiple products and services simultaneously, influencing technical decisions, establishing architectural standards, and ensuring that every solution aligns with business objectives and long-term platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities****Architecture & System Design

- Own the end-to-end architecture for multiple services and platform capabilities.
- Translate product and technical requirements into scalable, maintainable system designs.
- Define APIs, service interactions, data models, event-driven workflows, and integration patterns.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, reliability, scalability, security, and observability requirements.

Technical Leadership

- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Software Engineers to drive technical execution.
- Review and approve technical designs and architectural decisions across multiple teams.
- Guide engineers through implementation, resolving architectural challenges and technical risks.
- Influence engineering decisions through mentorship, design reviews, and technical best practices.

Platform Excellence

- Establish and promote engineering standards, reusable design patterns, and architectural principles.
- Drive improvements in platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Lead initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve system maintainability.




- Champion observability, fault tolerance, and production readiness across services.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Security teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Identify dependencies, align cross-team architecture, and enable seamless integration between services.
- Evaluate current technologies and recommend improvements that strengthen the platform.

Qualifications****Required

- 5-8 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in system architecture and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, messaging systems, databases, caching, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience designing scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar technologies.
- Exposure to AI platforms, workflow orchestration, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience defining engineering standards and conducting architecture reviews.

Success Measures

- High-quality architectures that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
- Consistent architectural standards across services and engineering teams.
- Reduced technical debt through reusable platform patterns.
- Improved platform performance, scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Successful delivery of complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives.

What You'll Bring

- Strong systems thinking with the ability to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Ability to influence without formal authority and drive alignment across teams.
- Passion for mentoring engineers and fostering engineering excellence.
- A pragmatic approach to balancing business needs with technical quality and long-term scalability.

📌 Staff Engineer – Platform Architecture (Bengaluru)
🏢 PinnacleU
📍 Bengaluru