Staff Platform Engineer

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Job Title ​: Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Business & Team:

The FXDBS squad sits within Capital Markets Technology and provides core platforms supporting FX trading, pricing, risk, and downstream processing. We build and operate critical technology that enables the Markets business to trade safely, efficiently, and at scale.

Impact & Contribution:

As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be a senior individual contributor providing technical leadership across the FXDBS platform landscape. You will focus on building resilient, scalable, and secure platform capabilities, while enabling product engineering teams to deliver value quickly and safely.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and architectural acumen for shared FXDBS platform services

• Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable platforms supporting real-time FX workloads

• Drive engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices across the FXDBS squads

• Enable teams through self-service platform capabilities, automation, and reusable components

• Partner with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust platform solutions

• Champion DevOps and SRE practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and operational excellence

• Improve platform resilience, observability, performance, and cost efficiency

• Ensure platforms meet security, risk, and regulatory requirements

• Mentor senior engineers and uplift technical capability across the broader Markets Technology community

Essential Skills: 

• Should have 12+ years of experience

• Strong experience in platform or infrastructure engineering within complex distributed systems

• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. Java, C#, Python)

• Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS preferred)

• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modelling for high-throughput systems

• Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging, or streaming platforms

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code

• Strong focus on non-functional requirements including availability, performance, security, and scalability

• Experience with monitoring, observability, and production support of mission-critical systems

• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments

• Understanding of FX or capital markets trading workflows is advantageous

• Familiarity with real-time pricing, market data, or trade lifecycle processing is beneficial

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology