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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