Digital Automation Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Member of Technical Staff focusing on Network Infrastructure, Linux Administration and Automation. The role involves managing and maintaining Linux-based systems and infrastructure, automating repetitive tasks, and ensuring smooth operation.

Requirements

• In-depth experience with Linux systems (configuration, troubleshooting, networking, and administration)
• Network infrastructure management knowledge. CCNA/CCNP or an equivalent certification is a plus
• Scripting skills in at least one language (e.g., Bash, Python, Go).
• Knowledge of version control systems like Git and experience with branching, merging, and tagging workflows
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as Proxmox or VMWare, including the design, implementation, and management of virtualized infrastructures. Understanding of virtual machine provisioning, resource management, and performance optimization in virtual environments.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Experience with end point security.

Responsibilities

• Network Infrastructure Management: Configure, manage, and troubleshoot routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless networks, Maintain and optimize network performance to ensure reliability and security.
• Linux Administration: Manage and maintain Linux-based systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Infrastructure Management: Managing servers, networks, storage, and other infrastructure components, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Automation: Scripting (Bash, Python, Golang, etc.), configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Virtualization: Design, implement, and manage virtualized environments, ensuring optimal performance and resource efficiency.

Enjoy a great environment, great people, and a great package

• Stock Appreciation Rights - Generous pre series-B stock options
• Generous Gratuity Plan - Long service compensation far exceeding Indian statutory requirements 
• Health Insurance - Premium health insurance for employee, spouse and children 
• Working Hours - Flexible working hours with sole focus on enabling a great work environment 
• Work Environment - Work with top industry experts in an environment that fosters co-operation, learning and developing skills 
• Make a Difference - We're here because we want to make an impact on the world - we hope you do too!

Key Responsibilities

1. Architect & Design

• ○ Define and maintain service architecture in Go and Node.js, ensuring scalability, resilience, and low latency.
• Lead the creation and upkeep of comprehensive Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) and maintain an up-to-date data model library.

2. Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Manage, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of 5–10 backend engineers (“maverick” talent), fostering collaboration, autonomy, and ownership.
• Conduct regular code reviews, design discussions, and performance feedback sessions.

3. AI/ML Integration

• Collaborate with Data Science and ML engineers to integrate OpenAI models (e.g., GPT-4) for features like smart audio transcription, summarization, and recommendation.
• Work with DataStax (Cassandra) or similar NoSQL systems to power low-latency user analytics and AI inference pipelines.

4. Delivery & Quality

• Establish and enforce best practices for CI/CD, automated testing, performance benchmarking, and observability (metrics, logs, tracing).
• Own SLA/SLOs and incident response processes, driving rapid root-cause analysis and post-mortems.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Partner with Product, UX, and DevOps to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and deliver on tight timelines.
• Evangelize backend and data architecture decisions across the engineering organization.

Must-Have Qualifications

● Technical Expertise:

1. 6+ years backend experience with Go and Node.js, building microservices in production.
2. Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, gRPC, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and event-driven architectures.

• Data Modeling:

1. Proven ability to author and maintain ERD documents, relational and NoSQL schema design (PostgreSQL, DataStax Cassandra).

● Team Leadership:

1. 2+ years managing high-performance engineering teams, with a track record of growing and mentoring “maverick” engineers.

● AI/ML Integration:

1. Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML models, preferably OpenAI APIs or
2. custom ML pipelines, into backend systems

● Operational Excellence:

1. Strong background in designing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud services (AWS/GCP).

Nice-to-Have

● Experience with GraphQL or real-time streaming architectures (WebSockets).

● Familiarity with large-language‐model fine-tuning and hosting on infrastructure like AWS SageMaker or Azure ML.

● Background in user-centric analytics and personalization algorithms.

● Open source contributions in Go or Node.js ecosystems.

What We Offer

● Competitive salary with performance bonuses and equity options.

● Flexible work hours and hybrid work policy.

● Generous learning & development budget for conferences, courses, and certifications.

● A culture that values creativity, ownership, and rapid experimentation.

● Opportunity to shape the future of audio social in India’s biggest emerging markets.

• Develop, implement and manage our social media strategy
• Define most important social media KPIs
• Manage and oversee social media content
• Measure the success of every social media campaign
• Stay up to date with latest social media best practices and technologies
• Use social media marketing tools such as Buffer
• Attend educational conferences
• Work with copywriters and designers to ensure content is informative and appealing
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales and Product Development teams
• Monitor SEO and user engagement and suggest content optimization
• Communicate with industry professionals and influencers via social media to create a strong network
• Hire and train other in the team
• Provide constructive feedback
• Adhere to rules and regulations
• Present to Senior Management

Cloud EOS Team

·        Arista Networks is the leader in building software driven cloud networks for today’s datacenter, cloud and campus environments. Arista delivers the most efficient, reliable and high performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G platforms delivered with an extensible operating system – Arista EOS®. Arista EOS is built on an open, programmable, and resilient state-sharing architecture that delivers maximum system uptime, reduces CAPEX and OPEX by simplifying IT operations and enables business agility.

·        We are building disruptive products and services that deliver highly automated networks that interconnect and secure connectivity between various global locations. As a part of the team you will be exposed to wide variety of technologies like EOS (Extensible Operating System), multithreaded, multicore software forwarding based on DPDK, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) infrastructure, Path selection, NFV, Containers, Network Segmentation, Virtualization, microservice based architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and Terraform-based declarative provisioning models. As a core member of the CloudEOS team, you will be part of a fast paced, high-caliber team building cutting edge software products for Cloud-enabled WAN connectivity. The team is responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of control plane, software data plane, and management platform/APIs/services.

·        Arista provides an open Engineering-driven culture which fosters innovation and enables engineers to Learn, Lead and Thrive. Our adoption of modern software tools, methodologies and processes and emphasis on automation enables our engineers to focus their energies on the truly complex problems and be among the most productive in the industry. Arista's products are purpose built with the scale, performance and quality required to operate in some of the most demanding environments - this provides engineers the platform and rigour to learn and gain experience in building complex, scalable software systems.

Basic qualifications

·        Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering

·        3+ years of experience working as a Systems Software Development Engineer

·        Proficiency in C++/C programming language

·        Software Development experience with Linux

Preferred qualifications

·        Experience with DPDK, Software Forwarding, Qos.

·        Python and/or Golang development experience

·        Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment

·        Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to delivering the fully developed feature.

·        Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.

·        Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus

EOS Routing Team

·        Arista Networks is the leader in building software driven cloud networks for today’s datacenter, cloud and campus environments. Arista delivers the most efficient, reliable and high performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G platforms delivered with an extensible operating system – Arista EOS®. Arista EOS is built on an open, programmable, and resilient state-sharing architecture that delivers maximum system uptime, reduces CAPEX and OPEX by simplifying IT operations and enables business agility.

·        The EOS Routing PI team is responsible for developing routing protocols like BGP, OSPF and ISIS and Data Center and SP technologies like MPLS, Segment Routing and EVPN. A unique feature of the Arista routing team is that the routing software is common across Campus, Data Center and Service Provider routing features. This is a global team that spreads multiple geographies working on cutting edge features that get deployed in the largest Cloud titan, Service Provider, Enterprise and Campus networks.

·        Arista provides an open Engineering-driven culture which fosters innovation and enables engineers to Learn, Lead and Thrive. Our adoption of modern software tools, methodologies and processes and emphasis on automation enables our engineers to focus their energies on the truly complex problems and be among the most productive in the industry. Arista's products are purpose built with the scale, performance and quality required to operate in some of the most demanding environments - this provides engineers the platform and rigour to learn and gain experience in building complex, scalable software systems.

Basic qualifications

·        Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering

·        3+ years of experience working as a Systems Software Development Engineer

·        Proficiency in C++/C and Python programming languages

·        Experience with routing protocols and/or Data Center/SP routing features

·        Software Development experience with Linux

Preferred qualifications

·        Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment

·        Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to delivering the fully developed feature.

·        Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.

·        Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus

EOS Layer 2 and Infra PI Team

·        Arista Networks is the leader in building software driven cloud networks for today’s datacenter, cloud and campus environments. Arista delivers the most efficient, reliable and high performance Universal Cloud Network architectures based on 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G platforms delivered with an extensible operating system – Arista EOS®. Arista EOS is built on an open, programmable, and resilient state-sharing architecture that delivers maximum system uptime, reduces CAPEX and OPEX by simplifying IT operations and enables business agility.

·        The EOS Layer 2 PI and Infra team is responsible for working on platform independent features on Arista’s EOS working alongside the EOS Routing team. The team is responsible for building innovative, scalable solutions in areas including EOS infrastructure, Layer 2 protocols like 802.1X, Macsec, DHCP, RADIUS etc. A unique feature of the Arista’s Layer 2 PI and Infra team is that the software developed is common across Campus, Data Center and Enterprise features. This is a global team that spreads across multiple geographies working on cutting edge features that get deployed in the largest Cloud titan, Service Provider, Enterprise and Campus networks.

·        Arista provides an open Engineering-driven culture which fosters innovation and enables engineers to Learn, Lead and Thrive. Our adoption of modern software tools, methodologies and processes and emphasis on automation enables our engineers to focus their energies on the truly complex problems and be among the most productive in the industry. Arista's products are purpose built with the scale, performance and quality required to operate in some of the most demanding environments - this provides engineers the platform and rigour to learn and gain experience in building complex, scalable software systems.

Basic qualifications

·        Bachelor's/Master's degree in Engineering

·        3+ years of experience working as a Systems Software Development Engineer

·        Proficiency in C++/C and Python programming languages

·        Software Development experience with Linux

Preferred qualifications

·        Experience with Layer 2 protocols like 802.1X, AAA, Macsec

·        Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment

·        Experience working through the complete software development life cycle right from requirements gathering to delivering the fully developed feature.

·        Strong software debugging skills especially in embedded systems.

·        Experience in Network Systems Software development is a plus

Company Profile:  

"Founded in 2012, Pay1 empowers neighbourhood retail businesses & micro-entrepreneurs by adding revenues streams and providing them access to new products, credit and technology. With a network of 300k+ merchants spread across 350+ cities in India, Pay1 is at the forefront of combining retail, finance, travel and consumer technology to create an integrated business ecosystem unique to the Indian markets. 

The platform has a wide array of distinguished services such as Digital Payments, Banking Services, Travel Booking Services, Financial services (MFs. Insurance, loans, gold investments), Remittances, Recharges, Bill Payments, B2B commerce and many more. The diverse selections of services provide our merchant network with immense growth opportunities that have been previously unexplored in the Indian retail scenario."

Job Description:

• Establish strategic tie ups with the large & medium size merchant aggregators for the enablement of Digital Lending services offered.
• Create value proposition, pitch presentation and designing SLA for business partnerships
• On boarding new partners and be an interface between internal teams and partner for system and process support
• Commercial and Contract Negotiations with prospective business partners and structuring financial proposals with best-value proposition
• Key Account Management with Merchant Aggregators for New Business Opportunities / Enhancements
• Suggest measures / solutions for tapping opportunities like product customization/ innovation.
• Keep abreast of the Digital Lending landscape, competitors and business needs.
• Issue resolution in relation to Digital Lending product related issues with Partners    

Responsibilities

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable wordpress modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Manage and update theme as per requirement

Skills

• Strong knowledge of wordpress
• WooCommerce plugin
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git