Founding DevOps Engineer

Founding DevOps / SRE (Umbrella Platform Engineer)

Experience: 5–10 years, 100% IC

This is a 5-day on-site role from HSR, Bengaluru

Immediate joiners preferred

Kindly do not apply if

• You want a remote/hybrid (this is onsite Bangalore only).

• You prefer narrow tickets and minimal ambiguity.

• You’re not excited about production engineering (monitoring, reliability, cost, latency).

• You want a highly structured, slow-moving product organization.

You are a great fit if...

• You enjoy turning messy problems into concrete solutions

• You thrive in fast-moving, low-process environments

About Meraki Labs

Meraki Labs is at the forefront of India's deep-tech innovation landscape, operating as a dynamic venture studio founded by visionary entrepreneur Mukesh Bansal (Founder - Myntra, Cure Fit) and Peeyush Ranjan (Former Google VP and Flipkart CTO). Our mission is to build and rapidly scale AI-first, "moonshot" startups—transforming groundbreaking ideas into next-generation industry leaders. Through a hands-on, intensive partnership model, we work closely with exceptional founders, driving these ventures from concept to impact.

The Role

You are the single infrastructure backbone for every venture in the studio. You won't run three teams' ops by hand — you'll build the paved roads (golden-path CI/CD, self-service deploy, security guardrails) that let six full-stack engineers ship independently and safely on AWS. This is a high-leverage, high-ownership seat: you set the infra and security DNA that every Meraki company inherits. You enable; you don't gate.

What You'll Do

• Build the platform: Golden-path CI/CD and deployment automation that each product team self-serves — so one person scales to three startups.

• Own AWS, end to end: Infrastructure-as-code, environments, networking, and cost control across all ventures.

• Bake in security: Cloud security, IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and guardrails built into the paved road — not bolted on later. You own the security posture.

• Automate quality: Stand up test-automation infrastructure and quality gates in the pipeline (the engineers write tests; you own the rails and the gates — not manual QA).

• Make it observable: Logging, metrics, alerting, and lightweight on-call so teams catch issues before users do.

What We're Looking For

• Deep AWS + IaC: Terraform or CDK fluency; you've built cloud platforms from scratch.

• CI/CD Mastery: GitHub Actions (or equivalent), containers, and ECS/EKS in production.

• Security-First: You think like an attacker and design like a guardian — this role owns the studio's security baseline.

• Platform Mindset: You scale yourself by building self-service, because you're serving three teams alone. Paved roads over tickets.

• Sole-Owner Comfort: You thrive as the single hands-on infra owner across multiple products — high autonomy, high accountability.

Technical Keywords We Value

• Cloud: AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3).

• IaC & CI/CD: Terraform / CDK, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes.

• Security: IAM, secrets management, SAST/DAST, least-privilege design.

• Observability: Datadog / CloudWatch / Grafana, alerting, SLOs.

• Automation: Test-automation pipelines, quality gates, cost optimization.

Why This Role?

• One seat, maximum leverage — your platform decisions compound across every company the studio builds.

• You define infra and security from a blank slate, with no legacy to drag.

• Total ownership of a discipline, working directly with founders and engineers.

Why Join Us?

• An opportunity to directly work with founders.

• High autonomy and ownership of the frontend roadmap.

• Meaningful ESOP.

• The chance to build in an AI-native environment.

• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to shape the engineering culture of a growing team.

Interview Process

1. Technical Round 1 - 60 minutes

2. Take Home Assignment + Panel Presentation

3. Culture Fitment