Staff/Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Gurgaon

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Term: Full-time

We are a venture-backed, stealth-stage technology company building next-generation matchmaking and relationship platforms. Our mission is to reimagine how people connect, using AI, community, and content as our building blocks.

We're not building another dating app — we're creating an experience where users feel: "This app gets me."

As our Staff/Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the platform's reliability, scalability, and developer velocity from day one.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions or similar tools.
  • Manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE preferred).
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
  • Set up observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar.
  • Manage and optimise database infrastructure for systems like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Cassandra — including backups, replication, scaling, and monitoring.
  • Collaborate closely with backend, iOS, QA, and security teams to streamline and secure software delivery.
  • Implement and enforce DevSecOps best practices across environments and workflows.
  • Drive automation, environment standardisation, and cost optimisation across infra components.
  • Own uptime, incident response, rollback planning, and postmortems.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • 4–7 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
  • Strong command of AWS or GCP services — compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, etc.
  • Experience building and scaling CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe releases.
  • Solid knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration best practices.
  • Proficient in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Experienced in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Solid grasp of networking fundamentals, DNS, firewalls, security groups, load balancers, etc.
  • Comfortable with monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.).
  • Strong debugging, incident resolution, and system design thinking.
  • Bias for ownership, hands-on mindset, and ability to thrive in ambiguity.

Bonus (Nice to Have)

  • Exposure to startup environments or zero-to-one infra builds.
  • Interest in privacy, security, or compliance in consumer apps.
  • Familiarity with cost optimisation, autoscaling, or spot instance strategies.
  • Worked with mobile app backend systems (push infra, image/video processing, etc.).
  • Experience with ML Ops pipelines (e.g., model deployment, versioning, monitoring).
  • Understanding of GPU optimisation and autoscaling for AI/ML workloads.

Why Join Us?

  • Be the first DevOps hire and architect a modern infra from scratch.
  • Build infra that supports real-time AI + social interactions at scale.
  • Founding team of repeat founders and technology leaders backed by top-tier investors
  • Autonomy + velocity + product-first culture + global ambition
  • All Engineers get ESOPs
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