Head of Platform Engineering

Role Summary

We are building a next-gen B2B SaaS platform in the financial-services domain (mutual funds). Our product engineering team focuses on domain modeling, operational compliance and feature development. We are now looking for an Engineering Leader who will own the non-functional pillars of the platform — security, performance, reliability, automation, observability, and engineering culture. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, reporting to the CTO/Founder and responsible for making our platform robust, compliant, performant, scalable, and secure.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the non-functional architecture — security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience
• Define and implement observability & monitoring frameworks (APM, logging, alerting, SLOs)
• Drive performance engineering — profiling, load testing, capacity planning, and optimization
• Champion engineering culture — coding standards, documentation norms, design reviews, and technical excellence rituals
• Build and lead the QA & automation strategy, including automated regression, performance testing, and CI/CD quality gates
• Act as a technical ambassador with customers, demonstrating platform scalability, security, reliability, and participating in due-diligence or technical evaluation discussions
• Partner with product engineering leads to ensure features meet rigorous non-functional requirements
• Mentor engineers on best practices and elevate overall engineering maturity

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, with deep expertise in security, SRE, QA automation, DevOps, or platform engineering
• Strong working knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices (Java, Golang, Ruby, Node.js, React stacks), and distributed systems
• Proven experience implementing security, performance, and reliability frameworks in a SaaS product
• Experience in FinTech/RegTech/Financial Services is a strong plus
• Hands-on ability to debug, profile, harden, and optimize systems
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills

Why Join Us? Build a high-impact platform in the financial services domain; work with some of the best brains in fintech and a strong product engineering team; grow in small, transparent teams and influence tech culture; attend meetups and conferences.

About Cybrilla

Cybrilla is a financial infrastructure company aiming to disrupt the way mutual funds work. We work with some of the largest financial institutions and fastest-growing fintechs in India. We are a SEBI registered RTA and are co-authoring the Mutual Fund protocol on ONDC. Our product, Fintech Primitives (FP), is an API platform that abstracts the domain, regulatory, and technical complexities of the Indian Mutual Fund domain so customers can build distribution use cases quickly.