Platform Team Lead - Distributed Systems

Job Title : Team Lead Platform

Location : Bangalore, India

Experience : 914 years

Employment Type : the Role :

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead Platform to drive the design, development, and optimization of large-scale distributed systems that power both internally critical and customer-facing services at BigBasket. In this role, you will lead a team to ensure our platform achieves the highest levels of availability, scalability, and performance, while fostering a culture of automation, proactive problem prevention, and continuous Responsibilities Engineering & Reliability :

• Design, develop, and deliver software solutions to enhance the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of mission-critical services.
• Lead initiatives to solve complex platform issues and build automation to prevent recurring incidents.
• Automate responses to all non-exceptional service conditions, reducing operational Design & Architecture :
• Influence the creation of new architectures, standards, and methods for managing large-scale distributed systems.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in microservices architecture and cloud-native development.
• Engage in capacity planning, forecasting, and performance tuning for production & Incident Management :
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Oversee blameless postmortems, incident reviews, and proactive identification of potential system outages.
• Establish processes to minimize time spent on operational work and maximize engineering Leadership & Collaboration :
• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of engineers to deliver high-quality platform solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps, to align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Foster a culture of accountability, problem ownership, and continuous :
• Strong experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of Unix / Linux operating systems.
• Proven ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks using scripting or programming languages.
• A systematic, analytical, and proactive approach to problem-solving with a strong sense of :
• Hands-on experience with microservices-based architectures.
• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms.
• Exposure to CI / CD, monitoring, and observability Skills :
• Strong leadership and team management abilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to think strategically while managing day-to-day execution.

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