Platform Software Engineer

About EarnIn As one of the first pioneers of earned wage access, our passion at EarnIn is building products that deliver real-time financial flexibility for those with the unique needs of living paycheck to paycheck. Our community members access their earnings as they earn them, with options to spend, save, and grow their money without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners like A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, Ribbit Capital, and a very healthy core business with a tremendous runway. We’re growing fast and are excited to continue bringing world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey. POSITION SUMMARY EarnIn is seeking a Platform Engineer to help with strategic design, automation, and optimization of our cloud infrastructure. This role involves innovation in cloud operations, enabling rapid development and scaling solutions across teams and systems. This is an impactful role within the organization, designed for those who excel at critically evaluating the needs of a rapidly growing company and at anticipating and solving cloud challenges at scale. This position will be hybrid, based in our Bengaluru office (HSR Layout), as part of our expanding site. EarnIn offers our employees excellent benefits, including healthcare, internet/cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and opportunities to travel to our Mountain View HQ. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. WHAT YOU'LL DO AI-Agent Development: Design, build, and iterate on AI agents that automate platform operations, from service and infra bootstrap, intelligent incident diagnosis, automated runbook execution, to self-healing infrastructure and PR-review bots. Own the agent lifecycle: prompt engineering, tool/function-call orchestration, evaluation, and production monitoring. Workflow Automation with AI: Identify and eliminate repetitive human-in-the-loop workflows across CI/CD, environment management, access provisioning, and change management. Kubernetes Infrastructure: Support our Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS, with a focus on environment hygiene and security; execute cluster-level tasks and updates with minimal support, and leverage AI for anomaly detection, capacity recommendations, and automated remediation. Developer Experience: Utilize our developer control plane (Cortex) to maintain paved paths and self-service actions, helping teams move from idea to production with minimal friction. Observability & Excellence: Strengthen operational excellence by monitoring SLOs/error budgets and utilizing Datadog for metrics, traces, and logs to improve system reliability. Platform Development: Develop platform services using industry best practices that enable operational excellence for Data, CI/CD, and Security. Service Standardization: Maintain service scaffolds and templates that encode testing and telemetry standards, ensure alignment with platform baselines, and use AI to auto-generate and validate configurations against them. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 3+ years in platform, infrastructure, or backend engineering with deep knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and cloud-native architectures on AWS. Demonstrated experience building AI agents or agentic workflows , not just using Copilot or ChatGPT, but designing multi-step AI systems that autonomously perform operational tasks (e.g., LLM-powered runbook agents, intelligent CI/CD bots, self-service assistants with tool-use/function-calling). Track record of automating away repetitive workflows with AI . You should be able to point to specific examples where you replaced manual processes with AI-driven automation that let a team do more with fewer resources. Experience in GitOps (