Jobs Companies Weekday AI Principal Platform Engineer

About this Principal Platform Engineer role at Weekday AI

Weekday AI · Onsite · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients


Min Experience: 12+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Strategy

  • Architect and evolve a unified, developer-centric platform across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
  • Bridge the gap between application logic and infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and high-performance execution.

 

AIOps & Intelligent Automation

  • Lead the AIOps transformation: Architect and implement AI-driven systems for predictive scaling, intelligent incident response, and automated root-cause analysis.
  • Leverage LLMs and ML models to automate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) generation, security remediation, and complex diagnostic workflows.
  • Implement log anomaly detection and predictive observability to transition from reactive to proactive system management.

 

CI/CD & Developer Experience (DevEx)

  • Design high-velocity, "paved-road" deployment pipelines that empower engineers to ship code safely.
  • Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate the software delivery lifecycle.

 

Kubernetes & Scalability

  • Lead the architecture of global-scale Kubernetes environments, focusing on multi-tenancy, security, and service mesh performance.
  • Optimize system performance under extreme traffic, ensuring 99.99% availability through advanced capacity planning.

 

FinOps & Governance

  • Implement advanced FinOps practices to optimize cloud spend, utilizing AI-driven forecasting to eliminate waste.
  • Establish strong human-in-the-loop governance for all AI-automated infrastructure changes.

 

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Expertise

  • 12 to 15 years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering.
  • Dual-Competency: Proven track record of architecting large-scale applications and managing the underlying cloud infrastructure.
  • Autonomy: Proven ability to troubleshoot issues across the entire stack—from application code and API performance to network latency and container orchestration.

 

Technical & Problem-Solving Skills

  • Deep expertise in multi-cloud architecture and distributed systems design.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), and cloud-native observability.
  • AIOps Proficiency: Demonstrated experience implementing AI/ML-driven operational workflows (e.g., automated diagnostics, predictive maintenance).

 

Collaboration & Leadership

  • Experience leading and mentoring teams in a global, cross-functional environment.
  • Ability to influence stakeholders and align technical strategy with high-level business objectives.

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

 

Nice to Have

  • Experience training or fine-tuning models for infrastructure automation.
  • Contributions to open-source projects related to Cloud-Native or AI tooling.
  • Deep knowledge of modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, Datadog).
  • Experience with advanced infrastructure security (Zero Trust, Policy-as-Code).

Must-have skills

Microsoft Azure, GCP, Kubernetes

Good-to-have skills

Docker and Kubernetes, Application, Full-Stack Development

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About Weekday AI

At Weekday (backed by YC; also Product Hunt #1 product of the day), we are building the next frontier in hiring. We have built the largest database of white collar talent in India and have built outreach tools on top of it to generate highest response rates.

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