Why this team exists We run a growing portfolio of consumer businesses — Seekho at scale, alongside several younger products still finding their shape. The reason to build them under one roof is leverage: a new product should launch with login, payments, and notifications already working, and spend its first year on the thing only they can build. What you'll do: • Build the platform from zero-to-one. Design and ship the IDP — self-service provisioning, paved roads, templates, and golden paths — so product engineers can go from idea to production without filing tickets or waiting on you. • Lead modernization and transformation as we scale: untangle the early scrappy infra, re-platform what's holding us back, and consolidate tooling before it sprawls. • Own the full stack of platform concerns end to end — infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability, reliability, and scalability. At our size you'll touch all of it, often the same week. • Treat the platform as a product. Your customers are our engineers. Talk to them, find the friction, prioritize ruthlessly, ship, measure adoption, repeat. • Be security-first and cost-obsessed from day one. Build guardrails, policy-as-code, and least-privilege defaults in early — and keep our cloud bill honest. Cost efficiency is a feature, not an afterthought. • Lead architecture decisions for the org: write the design docs, make the calls, and bring the team along. You set the engineering bar through example and mentorship. • Stay hands-on. This is a coding role. You'll be in the codebase, not just the roadmap. Requirements Must Have: • You've built platforms before — actually designed and shipped developer-facing or internal platforms that teams adopted, not just operated someone else's infra. • Deep, first-principles understanding of infrastructure, networking, security, runtime, observability, reliability, and scalability — across the board, not one narrow lane. • Hands-on experience with infrastructure modernization and transformation work. • A real platform-as-a-product mindset — you've defined golden paths and self-service capabilities driven by what users actually need. • Security-first and cost-conscious instincts baked into how you build. • You can lead architectural initiatives end to end — propose, align, deliver, own the outcome. • Strong coding ability in Python, Java, or Go. • Comfortable with ambiguity, scope, and the pace of an early-stage team — you'd rather ship and iterate than wait for perfect.