Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team at Calix is responsible for building and operating the foundational platforms, tools, and CI/CD pipelines that enable product engineering teams to innovate and scale efficiently.

We are seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer who brings robust experience in managing and evolving platform engineering teams, driving outcomes under pressure, and delivering reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure platforms. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical expertise, leadership, and excellence in execution.

You will play a key role in shaping the platform strategy, mentoring engineers, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions that power Calix products.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Delivery
- Lead the design, re-architecture, and evolution of infrastructure platforms to ensure high availability, scalability, reliability,



and security.
- Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives, ensuring timelines, quality, and operational excellence—even under high-pressure scenarios.
- Drive execution rigor, proactively identifying risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies, and ensuring timely mitigation.

Data & Infrastructure Platforms
- Design, implement, and optimize BigQuery datasets, tables, and queries for large-scale analytics workloads.
- Monitor and improve DB performance, including query optimization and cost control.
- Manage and scale data ingestion pipelines using tools such as Dataflow, Kafka, or Pub/Sub.
- Ensure strong data security and compliance standards, including IAM policies and data encryption.

Automation & Reliability
- Implement and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform/Terragrunt.
- Build intelligent automation to predict capacity saturation, detect failures, and ta

📌 Lead Data Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 75 India
📍 Bengaluru