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aion

Engineering Lead

aion

Engineering Lead for Aion, leading design and development of enterprise AI platforms. Mentoring teams and driving engineering excellence in a fast-growing startup environment.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeBengaluru • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in leading the design and development of scalable, reliable software platforms, with a strong focus on distributed systems and cloud-native applications. Proven ability to mentor engineering teams, establish best practices, and drive technical excellence in a fast-paced environment.

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Golang ProficiencyDistributed Systems ExpertiseCloud-Native Application DevelopmentKubernetes and Docker ExperienceAI Platform Engineering

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Hard Skills
Software Platform DevelopmentMicroservices ArchitectureAPI DesignObservability ImplementationLow-Latency System DesignDatabase ManagementEvent-Driven ArchitectureInfrastructure-as-CodeSecurity PracticesPerformance Optimization
Soft Skills
Team LeadershipMentoringCollaborationStrategic Decision-MakingContinuous Learning
Tools & Technologies
KubernetesDockerAWSAzureGCPTerraformPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryCI/CD Pipelines
Industry Keywords
Enterprise ApplicationsSaaS PlatformsAI InfrastructureMLOpsStartup Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonRustTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the design and development of Aion's core platform and infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Drive high-level architecture discussions and establish engineering standards across multiple products and services.
  • Make strategic technical decisions balancing product requirements, engineering velocity, and long-term platform sustainability.
  • Review system designs, technical proposals, and implementation plans to ensure engineering excellence.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
  • Establish engineering best practices across code quality, testing, documentation, security, and operational readiness.
  • Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of engineering team members.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, AI, Infrastructure, and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Drive project planning, execution, prioritization, and delivery across multiple engineering initiatives.
  • Ensure timely delivery of high-quality software while balancing technical debt and platform investments.
  • Collaborate with customers to understand deployment challenges and translate feedback into product improvements.
  • Build resilient, highly available systems capable of supporting enterprise-scale AI workloads.
  • Drive improvements in platform performance, observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.
  • Optimize development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and engineering productivity.
  • Establish scalable engineering processes that support rapid company growth.
  • Work closely with executive leadership to align engineering strategy with business objectives.
  • Collaborate across engineering teams to drive platform consistency, architectural alignment, and knowledge sharing.
  • Represent engineering in customer discussions, technical workshops, and strategic planning sessions.
  • Contribute to the long-term technology vision and roadmap for Aion's enterprise AI platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years of experience building and scaling software platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise applications.
  • 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment.
  • Strong proficiency in Golang is preferred. Experience with Python, Rust, Java, or C++ is a plus.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud-native applications, and API design.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platforms, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Strong knowledge of databases, caching systems, messaging platforms, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience building highly scalable, low-latency, production-grade systems.
  • Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLM deployment, inference systems, orchestration platforms, or MLOps is highly desirable.
  • Experience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing.
  • Strong understanding of software security, authentication, authorization, and enterprise deployment practices.
  • Bonus/ Good to Have
  • AI Platform Engineering: Experience building AI platforms, model serving infrastructure, orchestration systems, or enterprise AI products.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes Operators, Terraform, or platform engineering.
  • Enterprise Software: Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, customer VPC deployments, or on-premises enterprise solutions.
  • Developer Experience: Experience building internal developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, developer tooling, or engineering productivity platforms.
  • Startup Leadership: Experience scaling engineering teams from early-stage startup to growth-stage organizations

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Founder-level ownership and bias for action.
  • Strong strategic thinking and ability to connect technical decisions to business impact.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
  • Thrives in ambiguity, fast-paced environments, and early-stage startup culture.
  • Why Join aion?
  • Work directly with high-pedigree founders shaping technical and product strategy.
  • Build infrastructure powering the future of AI compute globally.
  • Significant ownership and impact with equity reflective of your contributions.
  • Competitive compensation, flexible work options, and wellness benefits