Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Pune, India
Department: Platform

Arkose Labs is on a mission to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from spam and abuse. As a Fast Company 2025 Best Workplace for Innovators, we provide a proactive fraud deterrence platform, Arkose Titan, designed to neutralize modern attacks powered by Agentic AI and LLMs. By combining proprietary intelligence with dynamic friction, we undermine attacker ROI to protect global giants like Microsoft, Meta, and Roblox. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, we maintain a global presence across APAC, Central and South America, and EMEA.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to grow our team in Pune, India. This team is responsible for managing the availability and reliability of Arkose Labs production systems. This role requires deep expertise in container orchestration, multi-cloud environments, and modern DevOps practices to support our rapidly scaling applications.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for improving observability, scalability, reliability, and latency of Arkose's platform, working closely with application development teams to achieve these goals.

What you will be doing:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure platforms
• Improve our reliability by identifying and addressing gaps in our architecture, services, and tooling that have the potential to cause outages
• Working on tooling, automation, and circuit breakers that help Arkose to adapt to changing attack patterns
• Establish GitOps workflows and deployment automation, and configure blue-green/canary deployments
• Improving our OpenTelemetry-based observability stack to include more signals that can be acted upon
• Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters for containerized application deployment
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning

Must have:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong experience with AWS
• Strong experience with high-volume and high-uptime services
• Experience implementing cluster monitoring, logging, and tracing
• Experience with at least one of: Golang, Python
• Deep experience managing production Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS)
• Knowledge of GitOps processes and GitHub Actions
• Strong skills implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Experience with modern SaaS-based software stacks

Nice to have:

• Experience with ScyllaDB
• Experience with OpenTelemetry
• Experience with CDN providers
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio)
• Experience with ArgoCD
• Expertise with Claude code

Benefits:

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Beautiful office space with many perks 
• Robust benefits package
• Provident Fund
• Accident Insurance
• Hybrid office model with flexible working hours and work-from-home days to support personal well-being and mental health

Arkose Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Arkose Labs will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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