Role: Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Function: Infrastructure / DevOps Engineering
Location: Remote (Global)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: INR 60-80 LPA plus significant ESOPs
Industry: AI-native SaaS, Productivity Software
About Company
The company is an early-stage, venture-backed SaaS provider reimagining how people create and share presentations. The product is the world's first AI-native slide platform and already serves 6,000+ teams after launching with a 100,000-person waitlist. Hundreds of decks are shared daily, and 85 % of surveyed users say they would be disappointed if the product disappeared. The company recently raised a US$7.5 million seed round from top-tier investors, giving it the runway to build a category-defining tool in a US$100 billion market. You will join a fully remote team spread across the United States, India, and Australia.
Position Overview
You lead the cloud infrastructure that powers a fast-growing, AI-native presentation platform. You design, secure, and scale backend services that delight thousands of global users every day. Your work keeps the platform reliable as the company pushes new real-time collaboration features and onboards ever-larger teams.
Role & Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve operational processes to deliver high availability, low latency, and rapid incident resolution for the live platform
- Provision and manage cloud resources to ensure scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Apply security best practices and meet all relevant compliance standards across environments and deployments
- Architect end-to-end solutions, including database schemas and microservices, with a focus on resilience and performance
- Write and review backend code and build robust services that support the product roadmap
- Lead medium- to large-size features end-to-end in partnership with product and design
- Inject craft and attention to detail into micro-interactions and user-facing functionality
- Propose new ideas, drive innovation, and leave your unique mark on the product
- Share knowledge, mentor peers, and help shape a world-class engineering culture
- Participate in hiring processes and represent engineering values during candidate evaluations
Must have Criteria
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud infrastructure
- Expertise in Node.js, Python, JavaScript, and Bash or Shell scripting
- Hands-on experience with major cloud providers; AWS preferred
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerisation, and serverless computing
- Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience using logging tools such as Loki or Splunk and monitoring stacks like Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and security principles
Nice to Have
- 12 years at a renowned software company, ideally early in your career
- Background building text editors, online whiteboards, CMSs, or creator/developer tools
- Experience developing real-time, multi-user collaboration features beyond basic CRUD
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or DevOps projects
- Track record at a design-centric organisation or in an SRE role at a growth-stage company
What We Offer
- Chance to work on a category-defining product in a US$100 billion market
- Design-led culture that values product taste and craftsmanship
- Ownership from day onelead features, influence product direction, and grow new skills
- Flexible, fully remote work with home-office reimbursement up to US$1,000 and the latest technology
- Supportive founding team backed by top investors and ample runway for long-term vision
- Competitive salary, significant equity, and transparent conversations about your compensation
