Head of Engineering - Series-B SaaS

Lagrange Point International; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lagrange Point International in Bengaluru, India, seeks a senior engineering leader to own end-to-end execution across planning, delivery, quality, and releases for a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform.

You will lead multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, while building engineering processes, fostering a strong reliability and quality culture, and mentoring senior engineers.

Qualifications

• 15+ years building production software.
• 8+ years managing engineers (leads or managers).
• Experience running engineering for multi-team or multi-product B2B SaaS companies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering execution: planning, delivery, quality, and releases.
• Lead production reliability, observability, CI/CD, testing, and incident response for multi-tenant deployments.
• Build repeatable, secure go-live processes across cloud and private environments.
• Define and run the engineering operating system: cadence, code/design reviews, release discipline, on-call, and done definition.
• Hire, set leveling and promotion standards, and develop engineering leads and managers.
• Partner with ML/data and Product to translate strategy into reliable software.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Architecture

Multi-tenant cloud

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

People management

Communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing Series B startup with live enterprise deployments and top-tier VC backing. They maintain a mission-driven engineering culture that prioritizes reliability, scalability, and delivering production-grade systems.

• Own end-to-end engineering execution: planning, delivery, quality, and releases.
• Lead production reliability, observability, CI/CD, testing, and incident response for multi-tenant and enterprise deployments.
• Build repeatable, secure customer go-live processes across cloud and private environments.
• Define and run the engineering operating system: planning cadence, code/design review, release discipline, on-call, and definition of "done."
• Hire, set leveling and promotion standards, run performance processes, and develop engineering leads and managers.
• Partner with ML/data and Product to translate strategy into reliable, shippable software.

Profile Requirements:

• 15+ years building production software, with at least 8+ years managing engineers (including managing leads or managers).
• Proven track record running engineering for multi-team or multi-product B2B SaaS companies; experience hardening data or document-heavy systems to production-grade at scale.
• Strong technical depth: architecture, design review, and hands-on debugging; respected by senior engineers.
• Hands-on experience with multi-tenant cloud (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience building engineering processes and quality culture without sacrificing delivery velocity.
• Clear, direct communicator; high agency; comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with regulated or security-sensitive enterprise deployments.
• Familiarity with AI/ML serving, evaluation pipelines, and GPU infrastructure.
• Experience with Java/Spring Boot, Python, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Temporal or similar tech.

On offer

• Opportunity to solve challenging, data-intensive problems at product scale.
• Opportunity to build engineering ground-up, influence culture, and shape long-term technical direction.