Engineering Manager (Bangalore, Remote option available) 8+ years of experience
Zepto (www.zeptonow.com)
Why should you look at this role?
Salary 65-80 lakh per annum
Paid leave
Sick leave
Provident Fund
What Else?
- High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
- Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
- Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!
Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)
About the Employer
Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!
Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee
investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.
The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.
Funding:
Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.
Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.
Employer Reviews:
“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”
"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."
Reporting structure:
Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO
The EM role would involve team management
Interview Process:
- Discussion on past experience and problem discussion based on projects done
- Low level design
- High level design
(One of the rounds will test scenario management via case study since it’s a managerial role)
What You will do Everyday?
- You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects but also build and manage a team of top noch engineers.
- You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs.
- As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team
- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
- Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
- Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening.
- Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way. You are their default mentor.
- You work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace
- You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions
- You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment
- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations
Your Superpowers
- B.E/B.Tech or any other similar qualification with experience as a tech leader and people manager for at least 8+ years.
- Experience of managing teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Experience with building, developing and coaching teams of best technical talent in the Industry.
- Experience with managing diverse teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
- Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product development etc.
- Experience with new open source technologies and their adoption into product.

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- Act as a force multiplier for product engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.
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- Build and evolve Zoop's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), including:
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CI/CD, Reliability & Developer Experience
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- Improve deployment safety through automation and testing.
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- Make observability a first-class capability using cost-efficient monitoring systems.
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- Build security-by-default into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Lead implementation and continuous compliance for:
- DPDP Act (India)
- ISO 27001:2022
- SOC 2 Type II
- Implement:
- Zero Trust architecture
- Least-privilege access
- Secure data isolation
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- Make cloud costs transparent and accountable across engineering teams.
- Establish FinOps practices including:
- Budgets
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- Drive build-vs-buy decisions using clear ROI analysis.
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- Build secure and scalable foundations for AI and MLOps workloads.
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- Partner closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure strategy with product goals.
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- Balance long-term platform initiatives with practical execution.
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Experience
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
- Experience scaling engineering platforms in high-growth or regulated companies.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
- Service Mesh technologies
- Policy Engines
- GCP, AWS (Azure exposure is a plus)
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
Engineering & Operations
- Strong understanding of SDLC and modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitOps, etc.).
- Experience with observability tools such as:
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- New Relic
- Comfortable reading and contributing to production systems written in:
- Go
- Python
- Node.js
Security & Compliance
- Practical experience implementing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.
- Strong understanding of:
- Data protection
- Privacy
- Identity and access management
- Security best practices
Mindset
We're looking for someone who is:
- Action-oriented with sound engineering judgment.
- Analytical, cost-conscious, and reliability-focused.
- Collaborative, calm under pressure, and open to feedback.
- Comfortable challenging decisions and explaining trade-offs when necessary.
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech, identity, or other regulated industries.
- Built Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or shared infrastructure tooling.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong experience in designing and maintaining YAML-based CI/CD pipelines, including end-to-end automation of build, test, and deployment workflows.
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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have working knowledge of databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle Database
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Mandatory (Note) - Only Male candidates are considered.
Mandatory (Location): The candidate must be currently in Bengaluru.
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