Software Engineer - SRE (Rust)

PhonePe processes more than 330 million transactions a day for over 600 million registered users, with an annualised payment value the company puts above 150 lakh crore rupees, so its reliability problems are among the largest in India. This role is on SRE tooling and is written around Rust, which is still rare in Indian job postings and is the most interesting thing about it. The work is building and maintaining PhonePe's in house cloud architecture components, specifically the ones handling procurement, provisioning, patching, migration and retirement of instances. The posting asks you to own solutions end to end, from gathering requirements with stakeholders across domains through design, deployment, monitoring and ongoing upkeep, and to find infrastructure wide problems and solve them at company scale rather than patching them locally. Beyond payments, PhonePe's portfolio includes insurance, lending and wealth distribution plus newer consumer businesses such as Pincode and the Indus AppStore, so the infrastructure supports a fairly wide surface.

What the posting requires

- 4+ years of experience in software development
- Proficiency in at least two of Rust, Go and Python
- Good networking fundamentals and systems knowledge, with exposure to open source technologies
- Strong data structures and algorithms
- Experience with or knowledge of operating systems and current technologies

Counts as a bonus, not a requirement

- Awareness of cloud technologies, Mesos, KVM or QEMU, and NodeJS or React

What you would actually be doing

- Gathering product requirements and designing solutions with stakeholders across different domains
- Developing and maintaining in house cloud architecture components, including procurement, provisioning, patching, migration and retirement of instances
- Owning implemented solutions end to end, from inception through deployment, monitoring and regular upkeep
- Identifying infrastructure wide and company wide problems and providing scalable solutions
- Measuring and increasing compliance of those solutions, and bringing a DevOps mindset to how they are implemented

Location and working pattern

Bangalore.

Also worth knowing

PhonePe lists a substantial benefits package for full time staff: medical, critical illness, accidental and life insurance, an employee assistance programme with an onsite medical centre, maternity and paternity benefits with adoption and day care support, relocation and transfer support, provident fund, gratuity and leave encashment, plus higher education assistance, car lease and a salary advance policy.

A good fit if

You are a backend or infrastructure engineer who wants to write Rust professionally rather than as a side project. Roles that will pay you to work in Rust in India are genuinely uncommon, and that is the strongest reason to look at this one.

Think twice if

You want consumer product work. This is internal reliability and cloud tooling. The posting also asks for two languages rather than one, so pure Python engineers with no systems language exposure are a weaker match.