Principal Engineer, Release Engineering
Razorpay · Posted Nov 6
Online payment gateway, business banking, payroll, and financial services platform
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About the role
Razorpay moves money for millions of businesses, and hundreds of its services ship to production through an internal delivery platform built on Spinnaker across multiple geographical regions. This release engineering role owns that commit-to-production path end to end — build, CI, continuous delivery, and safety/compliance enforcement — treating it as a product for internal customer teams. The engineer will drive org-wide technical direction, pipeline-level standards and migrations across product teams through influence rather than authority.
What you will do
- Build and CI: a standard way for services to build and ship artifacts, with traceability from commit to production, build speed treated as a tracked goal.
- Continuous delivery: progressive delivery as the default (canary with automated analysis and auto-rollback, multi-day bake), safe coordinated releases across regions, and proving pipeline changes before they reach production.
- Safety and compliance: deployment rules based on service criticality, enforced in the pipeline; policy as code; and change records that satisfy PCI-DSS and RBI requirements automatically.
- Adoption: the share of services on the paved path, not just the fact that it exists.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Deep expertise in production deployment systems: orchestration, rollout strategy, blast radius, rollback and multi-region coordination.
- Strong working competence in build and CI infrastructure, which we expect you to grow into. If you're deep in both, tell us; it changes the level we hire at.
- 8+ years building and operating production systems, with Staff-level scope: org-wide technical direction and at least one cross-team migration driven to completion.
- You've driven a technical decision through teams that didn't report to you, against real resistance. This is the most important requirement.
- You've built an internal platform other teams adopted, and can explain why they adopted it.
- Deep experience designing and running CD at scale (Spinnaker, Argo CD/Rollouts, Harness or an in-house equivalent), including its failure modes.
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge: rollouts, apply and patch behaviour, and failure handling.
- Strong backend engineering in Go, Java/Kotlin or Python, and comfort working in large codebases you didn't write, including open-source tools.
- Sound judgement on the trade-off between speed and safety, defensible with data to engineers and executives.
Preferred qualifications
- Contributions to Spinnaker or similar open-source projects; statistical canary analysis; workflow engines (Temporal); hermetic builds and remote caching (Bazel); supply-chain security (SLSA, Sigstore); and delivery under audit requirements in finance or another regulated industry.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Razorpay
Razorpay is India's leading omnichannel payments and full-stack financial solutions company, providing an extensive suite of products to accept, process, and disburse digital payments. Beyond payment gateways, the company offers neo-banking solutions via RazorpayX, business loans, payroll management, and corporate credit cards. It serves millions of businesses ranging from startups and SMEs to large enterprises globally.
- Industry
- Fintech
- Company size
- 3000+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $742M raised
- 2021-12-19Series F$375M
- 2021-04-19Series E$160M
- 2020-10-12Series D$100M
- 2018-07-05Series C$75M
- 2016-07-12Series B$20M
Leadership
CEO and Co-founder
MD and Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Recent coverage
Indian Startup News
Razorpay secures final IFSCA PSP licence to move money into and out of India from GIFT City2026-11-02
Razorpay Press Release
Razorpay Partners With OpenAI to Expand ChatGPT Ads In India2026-10-08
Razorpay Press Release
Razorpay Launches Vulcan, India's First AI Payments Foundation Model, Fueled by NVIDIA and AWS2026-09-07
Razorpay Press Release
Razorpay Becomes the First Indian Payment Aggregator to Enable Card Payments through Google Pay Worldwide2026-04-22