Lead Platform Engineer Job in Vunet Systems

Lead Platform Engineer Observability Solutions

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 6 10 Years

Function: Observability Engineering | Platform Architecture | SRE Enablement

Join VuNet Redefining Digital Observability at Scale

VuNet is transforming the future of digital experiences through Business Journey Observability, combining Big Data and AI/ML to empower real-time visibility across payments, banking, and financial services. Monitoring 28+ billion transactions/month, our platform is trusted by top financial institutions and powers over 300 million users.

Backed by Series B funding and recognized by Gartner, NASSCOM, and Forbes, we are leading the charge in building a new category of observability, proudly Made in India for global impact.

Your Role: Lead Platform Engineer

As the Lead Platform Engineer, you will architect and drive the development of packaged observability solutions across 100+ infrastructure and application technologies. You will define **golden signals**, build **data collection strategies**, and lead the standardization of alerts, dashboards, and RCA workflows for platforms like **Kubernetes, Oracle DB, and Tomcat**.

This is a cross-functional leadership role that sits at the intersection of product, platform, DevOps, and SRE. You will **lead a team** and influence how observability is delivered, scaled, and adopted across complex environments.

Key Responsibilities

Observability Solution Development

• Design and lead the delivery of observability packages for databases, middleware, cloud-native, and legacy platforms.
• Define and implement data collection pipelines, including agents, APIs, logs, metrics, traces, and service discovery.
• Establish **golden signals, SLIs/SLOs**, and health KPIs for performance, availability, and anomaly detection.

Dashboards, Alerts & RCA

• Develop standardized, reusable dashboards, alerts, reports, and troubleshooting playbooks.
• Automate **RCA workflows** to improve MTTR and reduce alert fatigue.

Platform Enablement & Integration

• Work with engineering to enhance agent capabilities and support new data sources/formats.
• Guide implementation of platform features for better observability at scale.

Team Leadership & Governance

• Lead and mentor a team of observability engineers and specialists.
• Define design patterns, reusable modules, and version-controlled libraries.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with product managers, DevOps, SREs, and customer teams to gather requirements, align priorities, and validate use cases.
• Ensure deliverables are scalable, well-documented, and production-ready.

What You Bring

Must-Have Skills

• 6 10 years of experience in observability, platform engineering, or SRE roles.
• Hands-on with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Splunk.
• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, profiling, and collection strategies.
• Experience developing solutions for platforms like Kubernetes, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, etc.
• Proficient in Python, Shell scripting, APIs, and automation tools (**Terraform**, etc.).
• Familiar with alert fatigue mitigation, anomaly detection, and RCA frameworks.
• Excellent communication, technical leadership, and documentation skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing an observability marketplace or solution catalog.
• Contributions to open-source observability projects.
• Certifications in Kubernetes, Observability platforms, or cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Background in ITSM tools, CMDBs, or incident workflow automation.

Why VuNet?

At VuNet, you ll help build a category-defining observability platform that s already transforming critical infrastructure for leading financial institutions. You ll work with passionate engineers, push technical boundaries, and grow in a high-trust, high-impact environment.

What You ll Experience:

• Ownership of key observability initiatives impacting 300M+ users.
• Collaboration with SRE, DevOps, and product teams across real-time financial systems.
• Opportunity to experiment with and shape Gen AI, ML, and emerging telemetry trends.

Perks & Benefits

• Health insurance for you, your parents, and dependents.
• 1:1 mental wellness support.
• Training programs, certifications, and career growth opportunities.
• Transparent, inclusive, and high-trust work culture.
• Access to cutting-edge technology and Gen AI-powered workspaces.

Ready to Design the Future of Observability? Join VuNet and lead the charge in building scalable, intelligent observability for the systems that power the global financial ecosystem. Apply now and be part of something extraordinary.