Platform as a Service Engineer

Tower Research Capital · Gurgaon · 3–7 yrs experience · Posted 2026-06-22

Tech stack: C++, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Rust

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About the role

At Tower, employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.
Responsibilities:
- Designing, building, maintaining and operating bare metal Kubernetes clusters
- Developing Kubernetes operator
- Owning, maintaining, developing tooling and documentation for developers
- Packaging, maintaining platform as a service build blocks such as stream services, data orchestrators, databases, caches, etc
- Bringing innovation to the Platform
Qualifications:
- An academic background (MSc or PhD) in computer science.
- 3-7 years of experience with Kubernetes as a user and as administrator is a big plus.
- Proficiency in one programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, C++.
- Good knowledge of system programming, Linux and troubleshooting skills.
- Working experience with observability practices and tooling is a big plus.
- Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, Etcd is a big plus
- General knowledge of infrastructure and protocols in domains such as DNS, Networking, Security, etc is a plus
- Familiarity with GPU operations and development is a plus
- Basic understanding of enterprise storage solution is a plus
- Experience with infrastructure as code and/or large scale configuration management system.

Qualifications

- An academic background (MSc or PhD) in computer science.
- 3-7 years of experience with Kubernetes as a user and as administrator is a big plus.
- Proficiency in one programming language such as Python, Rust, Go, C++.
- Good knowledge of system programming, Linux and troubleshooting skills.
- Working experience with observability practices and tooling is a big plus.
- Experience with distributed systems such as Kafka, Etcd is a big plus
- General knowledge of infrastructure and protocols in domains such as DNS, Networking, Security, etc is a plus
- Familiarity with GPU operations and development is a plus
- Basic understanding of enterprise storage solution is a plus
- Experience with infrastructure as code and/or large scale configuration management system.

Responsibilities

- Designing, building, maintaining and operating bare metal Kubernetes clusters
- Developing Kubernetes operator
- Owning, maintaining, developing tooling and documentation for developers
- Packaging, maintaining platform as a service build blocks such as stream services, data orchestrators, databases, caches, etc
- Bringing innovation to the Platform