About the role:
We’re looking for a Lead Platform Engineer who can drive initiatives that improve developer experience (DevEx), accelerate release cycles, and build scalable internal platforms.
This role is a hands-on engineering and strategy, with robust emphasis on building tools, frameworks, and platforms that directly impact developer velocity.
What you will do:
Lead the Platform Engineering (Developer productivity) team, setting up the vision and execution roadmap.
Design and build internal tools/platforms that optimize CI/CD, testing frameworks, and infrastructure automation.
Drive adoption of cloud-native solutions (Kubernetes, AWS, ephemeral environments, service monitoring tools).
Partner with engineering leaders to align developer experience initiatives with org-wide goals & OKRs.
Champion best practices around continuous delivery, developer efficiency, and operational excellence.
Evangelize team’s work internally (workshops, training, cross-team adoption) and externally (conferences, blogs, OSS).
Mentor engineers, foster innovation,



and build a culture of experimentation & learning.

What you will need:
6+ years in software engineering with at least 2 years in platform/dev productivity roles.
Strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Spinnaker/Jenkins/ArgoCD, IaC.
Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, agile test selection, code quality gates.
Robust coding skills in Go, Python, or Java (Go preferred for tooling/frameworks).
Experience designing ephemeral environments, monitoring/observability tools.
Proven track record of leading small teams, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale initiatives.
A background in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) or any open-source software (OSS) contributions would be a huge plus. Alternatively, having built something really cool to solve a difficult pain point for engineers or anything that helped ship things faster for the company or the OSS community would also be

📌 Lead Platform Engineer Bengaluru
🏢 Slice
📍 Bengaluru