Locus
Website:
locus.sh
Job details:
Principal Devops Engineer, Locus
Kubernetes
cloud architecture
Platform engineering
observability
security and compliance
mentorship
collaboration
About Locus
Logistics and Supply Chain
Technology
Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning
and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights
and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and
utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human
decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two point...
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Company Size
Startup / Small Enterprise
Experience Required
10 - 15 years
Working Days
5 days/week
Office Location
null, Bangalore
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Role & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Infrastructure at Scale Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.
- Platform & Developer Experience Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently — with minimal friction and maximum confidence.
- CI/CD & Release Automation Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Reliability Engineering Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.
- Security & Governance Integrate DevSecOps practices — from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
- Mentorship & Thought Leadership Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Principal DevOps Engineer Profile
- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies
- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org-level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership
- Mandatory (Experience 3): Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction
- Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)
- Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems
- Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - Automation & IaC): Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)
- Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability): SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management
- Mandatory (Leadership): Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role
- Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only
- Preferred (Education): B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields
Perks, Benefits and Work Culture
What We Offer
Join Locus and become part of a visionary team that is redefining logistics through innovation and smart distribution. We provide competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative environment where your expertise will drive both your growth and that of the organization.
Locus is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
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