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Platform Engineer - E3

Instawork· Engineering, Backend
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Hybrid (Bengaluru, India)Full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Platform Engineer role within Instawork Robotics Labs (IRL). Build platform capabilities, services, and infrastructure to power data collection, processing, and quality workflows for robotics and physical AI datasets. Hybrid product and infrastructure focus with responsibilities spanning platform design, production reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build platform products, backend services, APIs, tools, and workflows used by application engineers.
  • Manage, scale, and improve Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads.
  • Design and maintain reliable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms.
  • Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and operational workflows.
  • Develop platform capabilities using Python, Rust, or other appropriate technologies.
  • Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and capacity management.
  • Define and improve service-level objectives, incident response processes, and recovery procedures.
  • Monitor and optimize infrastructure costs across cloud services, Kubernetes workloads, and platform systems.
  • Improve resource utilization through right-sizing, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost-aware architecture decisions.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across platform services, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and applications.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and take ownership of diagnosing and resolving production issues.
  • Support infrastructure and product needs of high-throughput data and physical AI workflows.
  • Participate in code reviews and raise the technical bar through clear, practical feedback.
  • Own complex platform initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and operation.
  • Measure and improve platform adoption, deployment lead time, reliability, incident recovery time, resource utilization, and infrastructure cost per workload.

Qualifications

  • - 5+ years of experience building and operating production software platforms.
  • - Experience designing platform products, backend services, developer tools, or internal systems.
  • - Proven experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production.
  • - Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and observability.
  • - Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and production operations.
  • - Strong programming and problem-solving skills.
  • - Experience with Python and Rust is preferred.
  • - Experience with AWS and Azure is preferred.
  • - Experience operating multi-cloud deployments is preferred.
  • - Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS or Azure AKS is preferred.
  • - Experience designing cost-efficient cloud and platform architectures.
  • - Understanding of cloud cost management, capacity planning, resource utilization, and usage optimization.

Skills

Required:KubernetesDistributed SystemsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD
Nice to have:PythonRustAWS / Azure

Benefits

  • Free snacks
  • Health Insurance
  • Personal Insurance
  • Flexible Hours
  • Maternity/Paternity Leave
  • Broadband Reimbursement
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.

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