Role Overview

Design, build, review, and ship features powering Operant's products alongside the rest of the engineering team.
Own significant systems or components end-to-end — architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, operation.
Raise the technical bar through code review and contribute to architectural decisions on shared core systems.
Provide live debugging and engineering depth for strategic APAC customers during their business hours.
Participate in the engineering on-call rotation, with primary responsibility for customer-facing issues during APAC hours.
Ship contained fixes and small features independently; coordinate with US engineering on anything architectural or cross-cutting.
Make the call on what gets escalated to the US team overnight vs. waits for morning, and produce comprehensive async handoffs when escalating.
Partner with the APAC Customer Success Team as their L2/L3 escalation path and technical partner.
Join key deployment milestones, architecture reviews, and QBRs/EBRs when product depth is required.
Translate field observations into product improvements; validate feasibility of regional feature requests and present synthesized feedback in the monthly product review.
Operate with autonomy across a 12–14 hour gap from the US team, with disciplined async communication.
Available during overlapping hours with Pacific Standard Time (PST) for global engineering meetings and synchronous work with US-based leadership.

Requirements

8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 3 years at senior, staff, or principal level shipping production systems at scale.
Strong backend skills in one or more modern languages used in cloud infrastructure (Go, Rust, Python, or similar).
Hands-on experience with on-call rotations and production incident response — debugging live customer-facing issues and shipping the underlying fixes.
Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and container security across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Strong working knowledge of runtime security, API security, CNAPP, or cloud workload protection.
Hands-on experience with at least one of: MCP, agentic AI platforms, LLM orchestration, or AI agent security — or strong evidence you can pick it up quickly.
Proven track record operating as a senior IC with significant autonomy — owning systems, making consequential technical decisions, and bringing others along through documentation and code review.
Experience working across timezones with disciplined async habits — clear written communication, escalation criteria, comprehensive handoffs.
Customer-facing technical experience — debugging live with customers and translating technical realities for senior security audiences.
Conversant with AI tooling and and harnessing AI products in a way that preserves a strong and reliable software engineering discipline.
Based in Bangalore, willing to travel across APAC for strategic customer engagements (10–20%).
Available during overlapping hours with PST for regular synchronous work with the US team.

Tech Stack

AWS
Azure
Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Python
Rust
Go

Benefits

Competitive senior compensation — base salary, performance bonus, equity, and benefits benchmarked to Bangalore's senior technology market.
Direct founder access — work closely with Operant's CTO and engineering leadership on the region's most strategic accounts and on the global product roadmap.
Early in APAC — join a growing regional team with outsized influence on how Operant operates engineering across timezones as we scale.
Lean team, outsized impact — tight, high-caliber team where your contributions are visible and your growth is real.
Real engineering, not field engineering — you ship to the shared product codebase, not to a customer-specific fork.
Health insurance.
Wellness programs.

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