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Director of Engineering — Flights Platform

AI-First Travel Commerce · High-Scale Distributed Systems · Marketplace Infrastructure

🌏 The Problem Space

A flight search looks trivially simple. It is anything but.

Every query you fire triggers a choreography of distributed systems operating in real-time — integrating with a dozen airline GDS/NDC providers, computing dynamic fares across inventory buckets and fare rules, ranking thousands of itineraries by relevance and business intent, and returning a ranked, priced, bookable result set — all in under 100ms.

→ Millions of search queries per minute

→ <100ms end-to-end SLA with external API dependencies

→ High-value transactions — a bug here means a missed booking, not a failed render

→ Pricing errors erode trust faster than any other failure mode

We are rebuilding the Flights platform as a real-time commerce engine for Bharat — AI-native from day zero, built to power both B2C consumer journeys and high-stakes B2B enterprise corridors.

This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to build national-scale flight infrastructure from first principles.

🧠 What You Will Own

You will own the full Flights platform — systems, architecture, and the teams that build them.

Core System Domains:

•Search Systems — high-throughput, low-latency query pipelines returning ranked, bookable options

•Pricing & Fare Engine — dynamic pricing logic, fare rules, promotional overlays, and real-time validation

•Booking & Ticketing — transaction-critical flows requiring strict consistency, idempotency, and zero data loss

•Airline Integrations — managing unreliable external GDS/NDC APIs with retries, circuit-breakers, and reconciliation

•Post-Booking Flows — cancellations, modifications, refunds — correctness at the margin is non-negotiable

Platform Scope:

•High-scale APIs serving consumer apps, B2B enterprise clients, and third-party partners

•Event-driven state machines managing booking workflows across async boundaries

•Observability and reliability infrastructure across all mission-critical flows

Team Scope:

•Lead 15–30+ engineers across multiple product and platform teams

•Manage Engineering Managers and Principal/Staff engineers

•Own hiring, org design, and technical direction

⚙️ Core Engineering Challenges

This role is fundamentally about making the right trade-offs under uncertainty — at scale.

Latency vs. Accuracy — when do you serve a cached fare vs. call a live airline API?

Availability vs. Consistency — graceful degradation at booking time vs. strict price validation

Cost vs. Performance — when is an external API call worth it vs. a cache hit?

Scalability vs. Simplicity — the best system is the one your team can reason about under incident

🤖 AI-First Engineering

AI is not an afterthought. It is load-bearing architecture.

•LLM-powered pricing intelligence — dynamic fare prediction and demand signals

•RAG pipelines for fare rules, refund policy, and support automation

•Agentic booking resolution workflows — autonomous exception handling at scale

•MCP-based orchestration layers for multi-provider integration

⚖️ Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Distributed Systems

•Design and evolve sub-100ms distributed query systems serving millions of concurrent searches

•Build fault-tolerant booking pipelines with strong consistency and durability guarantees

•Drive Kafka-based event architectures for booking state management

Reliability & Observability

•Own 99.99%+ availability for booking and pricing systems

•Build deep observability — metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, SLOs/SLAs

•Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements

Business Partnership

•Partner with Product, Revenue, and Partnerships to translate commercial goals into architecture

•Influence platform roadmap, supplier strategy, and long-term technical investment

🛠️ Technology Stack

Backend: Java · Kotlin · Go · Python

Architecture: Microservices · Event-Driven (Kafka) · gRPC

Data: Redis · Aerospike · DynamoDB · Elasticsearch

Cloud: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3)

Observability: Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry

👤 Who You Are

•12–16 years in backend/distributed systems; 5+ Years in an Engineering Leadership role, led teams of 15–50 engineers

•Built and scaled large B2C + B2B platforms — Travel Tech, FinTech, or high-scale Consumer

•Deep expertise in real-time systems, marketplace dynamics, and external API integration

•Tier-I institute background strongly preferred (IIT / IIIT / NIT / IISC / BITS / VIT / SRM — CSE/ISE)

🚀 Why This Matters

Build national-scale infrastructure for 1.4 billion people

Sit at the intersection of AI · distributed systems · marketplace economics

Define the future of travel commerce in India — from architecture to product

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Database Engineer with a "reliability mindset" to own the stability, performance, and scalability of our mission-critical data layer. You will manage high-velocity data stores in a dynamic e-commerce environment, focusing on Aerospike, Cassandra, or Redis. The ideal candidate combines deep database internals knowledge with strong automation skills (Python/Shell) to minimize toil and ensure 99.99%+ uptime.

Key Responsibilities

• Database Operations: Manage the full lifecycle of NoSQL clusters (Aerospike, Cassandra, Redis), including provisioning, upgrades, patching, and capacity planning.
• Reliability & Uptime: Maintain extremely high availability. Design and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) drills, manage cross-region replication, and ensure robust backup/restoration mechanisms are in place.
• Performance Tuning: Proactively monitor database performance. Troubleshoot and resolve complex functional and latency issues in a high-throughput environment.
• Automation & Tooling: Write production-grade Python scripts and Shell automation to handle routine tasks, database migrations, and monitoring alerts.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and lead migrations across cloud providers or regions. Write and maintain detailed runbooks and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) configurations.
• Production Discipline: Execute production changes with strict adherence to change management protocols to zero-out downtime risks.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 3–7 years of relevant experience in Database Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Core Tech Stack: Deep hands-on production experience with at least two of the following: Aerospike, Cassandra, or Redis.
• Scripting: Proficiency in Python and Shell/Bash scripting for automation and tool building.
• Cloud Native: Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and experience migrating databases between clouds or hybrid environments.
• Operational Excellence: Proven track record of maintaining high uptime (HA) systems, managing DR strategies, and writing comprehensive runbooks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry Background: Previous experience in E-commerce, Fintech, or similar high-traffic, low-latency industries.
• Methodology: Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Tooling: Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and Configuration Management (Ansible, Terraform).

Why Join Us?

• Work on massive scale data problems.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions