Job Title:

Senior Platform Engineer

Work Type:

Permanent

Location:

WeWork-Cinnabar Hills, , Embassy Golf links Business Park, Off Intermediate Ring Rd, Challaghatta, Bengaluru, IND

It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

About the Role: This is a backend-focused engineering role where you will work on developer-facing platforms, security automation, policy enforcement, and cloud-native infrastructure. You will help drive the shift from reactive security practices to proactive and automated security solutions by embedding security controls directly into the software development lifecycle.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer - API Security to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will design, build, and operate a scalable API Security Platform that enables engineering teams to develop and deploy secure applications with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and enhance the API Security Platform, including security controls, policy engines, and developer-facing services.
Develop scalable backend services and APIs that support enterprise-wide engineering teams.
Implement secure-by-default patterns, frameworks, and reusable platform capabilities.
Automate platform operations, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, credential management, and certificate rotation.
Build and maintain remediation capabilities that automate identification and resolution of security findings.
Develop and manage security and operational policies using Policy-as-Code principles.
Improve platform reliability through monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and performance optimization.
Investigate security detections, troubleshoot production issues, and continuously improve platform effectiveness.
Collaborate with engineering teams, platform architects, and security stakeholders to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
Contribute to cloud-native architecture, operational excellence, and continuous platform innovation.

Required Skills

6-12 years of experience building and operating production-grade backend applications, platforms, or developer tools at scale.
Strong programming expertise in Python, Go, or Java with a proven ability to design, develop, test, and support production systems.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, containerized workloads, and cloud-native application development.
Strong knowledge of modern CI/CD practices and automation tooling.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
Strong understanding of observability practices, including logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
Experience developing and managing declarative, version-controlled configurations and Policy-as-Code implementations.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional, global engineering environments.
Product-oriented mindset with a passion for improving developer experience and platform adoption.

Preferred Skills

Knowledge of API security concepts, including OWASP API Top 10, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS.
Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Envoy.
Exposure to vulnerability management, security scanning, secure code review, or remediation platforms.
Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) or large-scale engineering platforms.
AWS, Kubernetes (CKA), or related cloud/platform certifications.

Qualifications: Degree in CS / SE / IS or equivalent experience. Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, OSCP, or CISSP are advantageous.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:

Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you:

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India:

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities

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