WE ARE HIRING | PLATFORM LEAD – BACKEND, DATA & ML INFRASTRUCTURE

Company: Pinaca Technologies Private Limited

Product: Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

Location: Hybrid

Experience: 7–10 Years

Team Size: 3–6 Engineers

Joining: Immediate joiners preferred

About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Platform Lead to drive backend engineering, data infrastructure, and AI/ML platform development for Pinaca, a social media and cyber threat intelligence platform.

The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers, own critical platform architecture, and build reliable, scalable solutions across cloud-hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design and development of backend microservices and secure APIs.
- Manage distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and large-scale data pipelines.
- Deploy and optimize self-hosted LLMs and ML models on GPU infrastructure.
- Drive search performance, data storage optimization, and platform reliability.
- Build secure, offline deployment, release, upgrade, and rollback processes.
- Establish engineering best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, and security.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Required Skills
- Solid expertise in Python and FastAPI or similar frameworks.
- Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.




- Hands-on experience with production ML/LLM deployment and GPU infrastructure.
- Proficiency in MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, and CI/CD.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
- Proven experience with on-premises or air-gapped deployments.
- At least 2 years of team leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications
- Kubernetes, including k3s, RKE2, or OpenShift.
- vLLM, ClickHouse, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Go or Rust for performance-critical applications.
- MLOps/LLMOps and secure software release practices.
- Experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or government-focused products.

Why Join Us?
- Lead engineering for a cyber intelligence platform.
- Work on challenging problems involving AI infrastructure and large-scale search.
- Influence architecture, technical strategy, and platform engineering decisions.

How to ApplyInterested candidates can share their updated resumes at [email protected]. Email Subject: Application – Platform Lead – Backend, Data & ML Infrastructure

Immediate joiners are preferred.

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📌 PLATFORM LEAD (Chennai)
🏢 Pinaca Technologies
📍 Chennai