Developer Productivity and Reliability Engineer

Job Description: Location: Hyderabad Experience: BS and 5-8 years MS and 3-6 years PhD and 0-3 years Primary Areas: Developer Productivity, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, Reliability Engineering, Test Automation Primary Stack: Azure, Terraform, Docker, Azure DevOps, Python, Go, Playwright, Angular/TypeScript, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis ROLE SUMMARY We are looking for a hands-on Developer Productivity and Reliability Engineer to build the internal engineering platform, automation, and quality systems that enable teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and reliably. The role will own reusable infrastructure patterns, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, environment provisioning, deployment workflows, observability, and developer self-service capabilities across our Python/Django, Go, and Angular/TypeScript applications running on Azure. The engineer will help establish a modern platform-engineering model based on automation, Infrastructure as Code, measurable reliability, reusable golden paths, and fast developer feedback. This role will work closely with engineering, QA, architecture, security, and product teams. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Developer Productivity and Internal Platforms • Build and operate reusable developer workflows that simplify build, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and release activities. • Create self-service workflows for project setup, environment provisioning, database initialization, test execution, deployment, and diagnostics. • Develop reusable repository templates, pipeline templates, Terraform modules, container templates, and engineering tooling. • Establish "golden paths" for common application types and deployment scenarios. • Improve local development environments using consistent tooling, containers, service emulators, and documented workflows. • Reduce developer cognitive load by standardizing common infrastructure, deployment, testing, and observability patterns. • Provide clear feedback through pipeline reports, deployment status, test evidence, quality dashboards, and actionable failure diagnostics. Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Automation • Design and maintain Azure infrastructure through Terraform and version-controlled Infrastructure as Code. • Build reusable, composable, and versioned Terraform modules for application, networking, identity, storage, databases, monitoring, and security services. • Automate infrastructure validation, policy checks, drift detection, security scanning, and controlled promotion across environments. • Implement environment provisioning and teardown workflows, including short-lived or ephemeral environments where appropriate. • Automate application deployments using Docker and Azure services such as Container Apps, Functions, storage, networking, identity, and monitoring. • Establish safe deployment patterns, including blue-green or canary releases, health checks, automated rollback, and progressive delivery.