Founding Platform Engineer - Gurugram

Valo as a Founding Platform Engineer and build the infrastructure powering AI agents, voice systems, and personal assistants for millions of Indians.

About ClanX

• Work directly with the founders on a zero-to-one journey.
• Company Details Valo (by Persin) is building an AI-powered personal assistant that every Indian can afford.
• The vision is to make personal assistance accessible to millions of working adults across India, helping them manage everyday tasks through phone calls, WhatsApp, payments, and other digital services.
• Valo is backed by three VCs and led by an experienced founding team with backgrounds at Zomato, Magicpin, IDFC Bank, Grab, Microsoft, Airtel, and Kapture CX.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the core platform infrastructure powering Valo's AI agents and voice systems.
• Design and manage scalable infrastructure supporting thousands of browser workers and concurrent voice calls.
• Build secure, isolated environments for individual users, ensuring their sessions, accounts, and data remain protected.
• Own infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, cloud architecture, and production reliability.
• Establish security practices across application infrastructure, browser workers, call servers, and GPU nodes.
• Build monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational systems from scratch.
• Ensure critical systems such as payments, user sessions, and voice infrastructure are reliable and secure.
• Work directly with the founders to make important technical and architectural decisions.

Requirements

• https://valo.persin.ai/ Requirements 3+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• Currently working at a product-based company.
• Previous experience being part of a founding or early-stage engineering team, preferably having taken a product from 0 to 1.
• Hands-on experience building and scaling infrastructure on AWS, including ECS or Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, and long-running workers.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CDK, CI/CD pipelines, and safe deployment rollbacks.
• Experience with security, IAM, secrets management, network hardening, and audit logging, preferably in systems handling money or sensitive data.
• Experience setting up observability systems, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Exposure to large-scale browser automation infrastructure, isolated user environments, or GPU infrastructure serving LLM or speech models is valuable.
• High ownership, high agency, and the ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment.
• Open to working in-office in Gurgaon six days a week.
• Excited about building from scratch, taking ownership, and scaling products from zero to one.

Benefits

• Establish the engineering foundation that future team members will build upon.

Job Details

Gurgaon (In-office, 6 days a week) Interview Process Technical Screening System Design Round Founders' Round Culture Fit Round Important Note ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Valo hire a Founding Platform Engineer.