Staff/Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Gurgaon
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