Senior Platform Engineer

The mission of Arkose Labs is to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from online spam and abuse. Recognized by G2 as the 2025 Leader in Bot Detection and Mitigation, with the highest score in customer satisfaction and largest market presence four quarters running, Arkose Labs offers the world's first $1M warranties for credential stuffing and SMS toll fraud. With 20% of our customers being Fortune 500 companies, our AI-powered platform combines powerful risk assessments with dynamic threat response to undermine the strategy of attack, all while improving good user throughput. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with employees in London, Costa Rica, Australia, Spain, India, and Argentina. Arkose Labs protects enterprises from cybercrime and abuse.

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 a potential to cause outage
• 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 hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong experience at least one of: AWS, Azure
• Strong experience with high volume and high uptime services
• 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 implementing cluster monitoring, logging, and tracing
• 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
• Certified in AWS (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) or Azure (DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect), Kubernetes (CKA)

At Arkose Labs, our technology-driven approach enables us to make a substantial impact in the industry, supported by a robust customer base consisting of global enterprise giants such as Microsoft, Roblox, OpenAI, and more. We're not just a company; we're a collaborative ecosystem where you will actively partner with these influential brands, tackling the most demanding technical challenges to safeguard hundreds of millions of users across the globe.

Why do top tech professionals choose Arkose Labs?

• Cutting-Edge Technology: Our high-efficacy solutions, backed by solid warranties, attract leading, global enterprise clients.
• Innovation and Excellence: We foster a culture that emphasizes technological innovation and the pursuit of excellence, ensuring a balanced and thriving work environment.
• Experienced Leadership: Guided by seasoned executives with deep tech expertise and a history of successful growth and equity events.
• Ideal Size: We're structured to be agile and adaptable, large enough to provide stability, yet small enough to value your voice and ideas.

Join us in shaping the future of technology. At Arkose Labs, you're not just an employee; you're part of a visionary team driving global change

The most recognizable brands in the world select Arkose Labs, including OpenAI, Roblox, Microsoft, Adobe, Expedia, Snapchat, Zilch, and ZipAir.

We value your unique contributions, perspectives, and experiences. Be part of a diverse and high-performing environment that prioritizes collaboration, excellence, and inclusion. We hire the best, focus on their professional development, and offer support for continuing education.

We value:

• People: first and foremost they are our most valuable resource. Our people are independent thinkers who make data driven decisions and take ownership and accountability in all the things they do.
• Team Work. We demonstrate respect, trust, integrity, and communicate openly with a positive can do attitude and constructively challenge one another
• Customer Focus. We empathize with our customers and obsess about solving their problems
• Execution with precision, professionalism and urgency
• Security. It's the lens through which we implement our processes, procedures, and programs

Benefits:

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Beautiful office space with many perks 
• Robust benefits package
• Provident Fund
• Accident Insurance
• 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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