Instawork
Platform Engineer – E3 at Instawork
Instawork is hiring a Platform Engineer – E3 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The role details below come from the employer’s posting. You apply on the employer’s own site, and TechJobs360 never charges candidates.
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1. Job details
Instawork
Platform Engineer – E3
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Not disclosed by employer
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2. Job description from Instawork
Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.
About IRL (Instawork Robotics Labs)
Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap”—the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments—kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, and homes—to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading robotics labs use to train their foundation models.
About the Role
Instawork Robotics creates the highest-quality, highest-diversity datasets for robotics and physical AI. We work with leading robotics builders and research labs to solve one of the most important challenges in robotics: closing the data gap.
As a Platform Engineer, you will build the products, services, tools, and infrastructure that power IRL’s data collection, processing, and quality workflows. This is a hybrid product and infrastructure role: you will design platform capabilities for application engineers while also owning the reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, and operation of the systems behind them.
You will collaborate across Engineering, Operations, and Business teams to translate customer requirements into clear, scalable technical solutions, leveraging AI methodologies to deliver high-quality products and efficient software workflows. You’ll work across distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, observability, and high-throughput data workflows—supporting a platform already processing 50+ PB of data and 600K+ hours of video.
You are someone who thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, has strong product instincts, and can translate customer needs into technical solutions that drive business outcomes.
Who You Are
– 5+ years of experience building and operating production software platforms.
– Experience designing platform products, backend services, developer tools, or internal systems.
– Proven experience managing Kubernetes clusters at scale in production.
– Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and observability.
– Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and production operations.
– Strong programming and problem-solving skills.
– Experience with Python and Rust is preferred.
– Experience with AWS and Azure is preferred.
– Experience operating multi-cloud deployments is preferred.
– Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS or Azure AKS is preferred.
– Experience designing cost-efficient cloud and platform architectures.
– Understanding of cloud cost management, capacity planning, resource utilization, and usage optimization.
What You’ll Do
– Design and build platform products, backend services, APIs, tools, and workflows used by application engineers.
– Manage, scale, and improve Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads.
– Design and maintain reliable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms.
– Build automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and operational workflows.
– Develop platform capabilities using Python, Rust, or other appropriate technologies.
– Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and capacity management.
– Define and improve service-level objectives, incident response processes, and recovery procedures.
– Monitor and optimize infrastructure costs across cloud services, Kubernetes workloads, and platform systems.
– Improve resource utilization through right-sizing, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost-aware architecture decisions.
– Troubleshoot complex issues across platform services, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and applications.
– Participate in an on-call rotation and take ownership of diagnosing and resolving production issues.
– Support the infrastructure and product needs of high-throughput data and physical AI workflows.
– Participate in code reviews and raise the technical bar through clear, practical feedback.
– Own complex platform initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and operation.
– Measure and improve platform adoption, deployment lead time, reliability, incident recovery time, resource utilization, and infrastructure cost per workload.
Perks
– Free snacks
– Health Insurance
– Personal Insurance
– Flexible Hours
– Maternity/Paternity Leave
– Broadband Reimbursement
Our Values
Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
About Instawork
3. Skills that usually matter in cloud, DevOps and SRE roles
General guidance from TechJobs360, not part of Instawork’s posting. The job description above is what counts for this role.
| Area | What to be comfortable with |
|---|---|
| Languages | Go, Python, Bash, Terraform (HCL) |
| Frameworks & tools | Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) |
| Computer science basics | Data structures, algorithms, complexity |
| Ways of working | Version control, code review, testing, reading other people's code |
4. How to prepare for a Platform Engineer – E3 interview
Interview formats differ by company and team, so confirm the rounds with the recruiter. Most hiring loops for roles like this cover:
A recruiter call or an online test. Read the job description twice and be ready to explain how your experience matches it.
Often coding problems on arrays, strings, trees, graphs or dynamic programming, solved while you explain your thinking.
Often design and trade-off questions sized to the role: an API, a component, or a small system.
Answer with the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Prepare two or three real stories: a hard problem you solved, a disagreement you handled, and something you learned quickly.
5. Take-home pay example (FY 2026–27, new tax regime)
An example for two common package sizes, not this job’s salary. Under the new tax regime (Section 115BAC) salaried employees get a standard deduction of ₹75,000.
| Component | Example: ₹12 LPA | Example: ₹24 LPA |
|---|---|---|
| Basic salary (40% of CTC) | ₹40,000 / mo | ₹80,000 / mo |
| Employee EPF (12% of basic) | -₹4,800 / mo | -₹9,600 / mo |
| Income tax (TDS) | -₹6,933 / mo | -₹32,450 / mo |
| Professional tax | -₹200 / mo | -₹200 / mo |
| Approx. in-hand | ₹81,344 / mo | ₹1,44,304 / mo |
Work out the take-home pay for your own offer, in either tax regime.
6. Questions and how to apply
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Should I apply if I don’t match every requirement?
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