Founding Platform Engineer - Gurugram

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

Website: 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.

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.

• 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.