Blitzy

The Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Blitzy's Pune headquarters, you will be the backbone of our platform's reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, ensuring our AI-powered development platform remains highly available and performant as we scale rapidly. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for an engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment and takes deep ownership of the systems they build.

What Success Looks Like

• In 30 days: You have a deep understanding of Blitzy's infrastructure architecture, have identified key reliability risks, and are actively contributing to on-call rotations.
• In 90 days: You have shipped meaningful improvements to observability, incident response workflows, and deployment pipelines that measurably reduce MTTR and increase system uptime.
• In 6 months: You have driven at least one major reliability initiative from inception to production, established SLO/SLA frameworks for critical services, and are a trusted technical voice shaping our infrastructure roadmap.

Areas of Ownership

• Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets; lead blameless postmortems and drive systemic improvements.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment infrastructure.
• Own observability: design and maintain logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Partner closely with software engineering teams to embed reliability practices into the development lifecycle.
• Drive capacity planning, performance benchmarking, and cost optimization across our infrastructure.
• Champion security best practices within the infrastructure and deployment layers.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred); experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
• Proven track record designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in observability tooling, incident management, and on-call practices.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering teams and present technical findings to leadership.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.
• Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment where you wore multiple hats.
• Familiarity with eBPF, service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), or advanced networking.
• Contributions to open-source SRE/DevOps tooling or communities.
• Experience building global, multi-region infrastructure with strict latency and availability requirements.

What Makes This Role Different

You won't be maintaining legacy systems or fighting fires in a sprawling monolith. At Blitzy, you're building reliability into a greenfield AI platform that is redefining how the world creates software. You'll have direct influence over architectural decisions, work side-by-side with world-class engineers, and see the tangible impact of your work as we scale to serve Fortune 500 customers. As a founding member of the Pune SRE team, you'll help shape the culture and technical standards of a team that will grow with the company.

The Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Blitzy's Pune headquarters, you'll build and operate the infrastructure that powers our AI agents and the applications they produce. You'll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI-native systems — designing the pipelines, clusters, and automation that allow Blitzy to ship production-ready software at machine speed. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for an engineer who moves fast, automates everything, and cares deeply about developer experience and system reliability.

What Success Looks Like

• Kubernetes clusters are running reliably at scale, with clear deployment standards, Helm-managed releases, and minimal manual intervention required from engineering teams.
• CI/CD pipelines are fast, consistent, and trusted — developers ship confidently knowing the automation handles the rest.
• Observability is comprehensive: alerts are actionable, dashboards are meaningful, and incidents are resolved faster because the right data is always available.
• Infrastructure provisioning is fully automated — no snowflake environments, no manual setup, everything reproducible through code.
• AI agent orchestration infrastructure is stable and scalable, directly enabling Blitzy's core product to deliver for enterprise customers.
• Engineering teams notice the difference — developer productivity is measurably higher and infrastructure is no longer a bottleneck to shipping.

Areas of Ownership

• Build and manage Kubernetes clusters supporting AI agent workloads and application deployment at scale.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and AI service delivery — ensuring speed, reliability, and repeatability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and dynamic scaling using Python scripts and Terraform IaC.
• Deploy and manage applications using Helm charts; own packaging standards and release automation.
• Build and maintain comprehensive observability stacks — alerting, distributed tracing, metrics, and logging (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
• Monitor and maintain production services and APIs; own incident response and drive blameless postmortems.
• Build dedicated infrastructure for AI agent orchestration and management, enabling Blitzy's core autonomous development capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on deployment strategies and continuously improve developer experience through tooling and automation.

Required Experience

• 5–8 years of DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Python proficiency for scripting, automation, and infrastructure tooling.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise — cluster management, workload deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on Helm experience for application packaging and release management.
• Proven ability to design and implement CI/CD pipelines across complex, multi-service environments.
• Practical experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Terraform proficiency for infrastructure-as-code provisioning and state management.
• Strong Linux administration and containerization fundamentals (Docker, OCI).

What Makes You Stand Out

• CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) certification.
• Familiarity with MLOps tooling such as MLflow, Kubeflow, or similar platforms for AI/ML workload management.
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems design.
• Knowledge of API gateways and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or equivalent).
• Prior experience in a high-growth AI or software startup where you moved fast and owned broadly.
• Track record of meaningfully improving developer productivity through platform and tooling investments.

What Makes This Role Different

Most DevOps roles have you maintaining existing systems. At Blitzy, you're building the infrastructure layer for a platform that autonomously writes enterprise software — a genuinely new category of product. You'll work on AI agent orchestration, Kubernetes at scale, and developer tooling that is directly responsible for how fast Blitzy delivers value to Fortune 500 customers. As an early member of the Pune engineering team, you'll have outsized influence over our infrastructure culture and technical direction. High performers are eligible for company equity — giving you real ownership in what you build.

About the role

We are looking for talented Senior Backend Engineers (5+ years of experience) to join our team and take ownership of different parts of our stack. You will be working alongside a team of Engineers locally and directly with the U.S. Engineering team on all aspects of product/application development. You will leverage your experiences and abilities to inform decisions across product development and technology. You will help us build the foundation of our 2nd Headquarters in Pune: its culture, its processes, and its practices. There are a ton of interesting problems to solve, so come hungry. If your colleagues describe you as curious, driven, kind, and creative you are a culture fit.

What Success Looks Like

• You write, review and ship code in production. Your employer or client's success depends on the software you build
• You use Generative AI tools on a daily basis to enhance the quality and efficacy of your software and non-software deliverables
• You are a self-starter and enjoy working with minimal supervision
• You evaluate and make technical architecture decisions with a long-term view, optimizing for speed, quality, and safety
• You take pride in the product you create and the code that you write
• Your team can rely on you to get them out of a sticky situation in production
• You can work well on a team of sales executives, designers and engineers in an in-person environment
• You are passionate about the enterprise software development lifecycle and feel strongly about improving it
• You are a first principles engineer who exercises curiosity about the technologies you work with
• You can learn quickly about technologies, software and code that you are not familiar with, often from rudimentary documentation
• You take ownership of the code that you write, and you help the team operate with everything that you build, throughout its lifecycle
• You communicate openly and solicit feedback on important decisions, keeping the team aligned on your rationale
• You exercise an optimistic mindset and are willing to go the extra mile to make things work

Areas of Ownership

Our hiring process is designed for you to demonstrate a generalist set of capabilities, with a specialization in Backend Technologies.

Required Technical Experience (MUST HAVE):

• Expertise in Python -
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform -
• Proficiency in Kubernetes -
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP strongly preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable) -

Additional experience with some of the following:

• Backend Frameworks and Technologies (Node.js, NuxtJS, Express.js)
• Programming languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go)
• RPCs (REST, gRPC or GraphQL)
• Databases (SQL, NoSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, or Firebase)
• CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab or similar)
• Source code versioning tools such as Git or Perforce
• Microservices architecture

Ways to stand out

• Familiarity with AI Platforms
• Extensive experience with building enterprise-scale applications with >99% SLAs
• Deep expertise across the full required stack: Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP

You'll Get...

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance Benefits
• Employer Provident Fund contributions with Gratuity after 5 years of service
• Company-sponsored US onsite trips for high performers, based on business requirements
• Potential international transfer support for top performers, based on business requirements
• Technology (hardware, software, trainings, etc.) equipment and/or allowance
• The opportunity to re-shape an entire industry
• Beautiful office environment
• Meal allowance and/or food provision on site

Culture

Who we are: Our Co-Founder and CTO is a Serial Gen AI Inventor who grew up in Pune, India, is a BITS Pilani graduate, and worked at NVIDIA's Pune office for 6 years. There, he was promoted 5 times in 6 years and was transferred to the NVIDIA Headquarters in Santa Clara, California. After making significant contributions to NVIDIA, he proceeded to attend Harvard for his dual Masters in Engineering and MBA from HBS. Our other Co-Founder/CEO is a successful Serial Entrepreneur who has built multiple companies. As a team, we work very hard, have a curious mind-set, and believe in a low-ego high output approach.