This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Min Experience: 15 yearsLocation: Bengaluru, KarnatakaJobType: full-timeAs product adoption rapidly scales, we are consolidating three major engineering domains—Front-End Platform, Data Platform, and Core Infrastructure—under a single leader to drive alignment, reliability, and delivery speed. This role will define the platform vision, guide a cross-functional engineering organization, and own the roadmap spanning developer experience, global scalability, and production reliability. A key initiative will include leading the Data Residency program to ensure customer data remains compliant across geopolitical regions.
Requirements
Ideal Candidate Profile
Technical Strategist
You bring deep experience in modern cloud-native engineering and are able to lead architecture discussions across:
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
- Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
- Data Stack: Warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery), orchestration (Airflow, dbt, Dagster)
- Frontend Platforms: Understanding of frameworks, build tooling, and DX challenges
Product-Minded Leader
Treats platform teams as internal product teams, builds roadmaps, prioritizes based on impact, and communicates clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
Exceptional Communicator
Can translate complex technical vision into executive-level alignment and team-level execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Strategy & Roadmap: Build a 12-18 month strategy enabling engineering velocity across micro-frontends, microservices, infra automation, data pipelines, and multi-region deployments.
- Front-End Platform Leadership: Create standardized frameworks, reusable component libraries, and developer tooling to improve speed and quality of Vue/TypeScript apps.
- Data Platform & Residency: Implement data governance, lineage, ingestion standards, and multi-region architecture to fulfill EU, US, and APAC residency requirements.
- Core Infra & Cloud Ownership: Manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, IaC (Terraform), observability, and cloud cost optimization.
- Developer Experience & Reliability: Advance CI/CD, progressive delivery, chaos engineering, observability, and SRE best practices.
- Security & Compliance: Partner with Security and Legal on SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and policy-as-code frameworks.
- Team Leadership: Grow, coach, and scale platform, SRE, and data engineering teams while fostering a high-trust, ownership-led engineering culture.
- Executive Communication: Convert platform performance metrics (DORA metrics, MTTR, cost, uptime) into insights for Product, Engineering, and Leadership stakeholders.
Requirements
- 15+ years in engineering, with 5+ years leading Platform, SRE, or Cloud teams at scale in a SaaS environment
- Proven leadership across frontend platforms, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
- Expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, and distributed systems
- Hands-on depth in TypeScript/Node, Terraform, Helm, and event-driven architectures
- Experience deploying multi-region or data-residency architectures in regulated environments
- Strong people leadership and ability to scale multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Experience operating in compliance-oriented ecosystems (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.)
Bonus Points
- Experience leading managers (multi-layer org structure)
- FinOps / cloud cost optimization expertise
- Familiarity with modern front-end tooling (Vue, Vite, Monorepos)
