Associate Architect

Job Description: Associate Architect - SRE

Who are we?

Myntra is India’s leading fashion and lifestyle platform, where technology meets creativity. As pioneers in fashion e-commerce, we’ve always believed in disrupting the ordinary.

We thrive on a shared passion for fashion, a drive to innovate to lead, and an environment that empowers each one of us to pave our own way. We’re bold in our thinking, agile in our execution, and collaborative in spirit.

Here, we create MAGIC by inspiring vibrant and joyous self-expression and expanding fashion possibilities for India, while staying true to what we believe in.

We believe in taking bold bets and changing the fashion landscape of India. We are a company that is constantly evolving into newer and better forms and we look for people who are ready to evolve with us.

From our humble beginnings as a customization company in 2007 to being technology and fashion pioneers today, Myntra is going places and we want you to take part in this journey with us.

Working at Myntra is challenging but fun - we are a young and dynamic team, firm believers in meritocracy, believe in equal opportunity, encourage intellectual curiosity and empower our teams with the right tools, space, and opportunities.

Company Overview:

Myntra s Engineering team builds the technology platform that empowers our customers shopping experience and enables the smooth flow of products from suppliers to our customers' doorsteps. We work on areas such as

building massive-scale web applications, engaging user interfaces, big-data analytics, mobile apps, workflow systems, inventory management, etc. We are a small technology team where each individual has a huge impact. You will have the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing organization and gain exposure to all the parts of a comprehensive e-commerce platform.

About The Team:

The Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) group is responsible for developing and managing platforms that allow Myntra s tech products to be deployed and run at scale. The CPE team builds and maintains centralized and high-scale platforms for sophisticated application security frameworks, log collection, monitoring systems, access management, secret management, database access, change management systems, build, release and deployment. You will be part of the SRE team under the CPE division.

Position: Associate Architect - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview:

We are seeking an Associate Architect - SRE to drive the reliability, scalability, and observability of our e-commerce platform. This role will focus on designing and implementing robust monitoring and logging platforms, automation using Python or Golang, and ensuring high availability of services on Kubernetes and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering teams to create scalable and automated solutions that enhance performance and system stability.

Responsibilities:

• Hosting infrastructure and setting up the core platform form the backbone of any system.
• As part of this team, you will be responsible for Architect and implement a scalable monitoring and logging platform stack to enhance observability across microservices.
• Design, develop, and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python or Golang to streamline infrastructure operations.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes-based deployments for high availability and resilience.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to define best practices for reliability, scalability, and incident management.
• Enhance security, compliance, and fault tolerance in the cloud and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Analyze system metrics and logs to proactively identify performance bottlenecks and prevent failures.
• Lead post-mortem analysis and drive root cause identification for production incidents.
• Capacity planning and workload optimization, cost monitoring by adopting best practices.
• Good understanding of protocols like gRPC, layer 7 security etc.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in designing and implementing monitoring/logging platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, NewRelic etc.).
• Hands-on experience in automation and scripting using Python or Golang.
• Proficiency in managing and scaling Kubernetes (K8s) clusters in production.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and understanding of their networking, security, and scalability aspects.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
• Experience in CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd.
• Understanding of SRE principles such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Familiarity with incident response and post-mortem best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills