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About Chronicle: Cursor for Slides

Chronicle is the modern format of presentations - like having the world’s best designers and storytellers bring your ideas to life. We’re backed by Accel and SquarePeg ($7.5M seed). We launched to a waitlist of **100,000+ users** and onboarded 6,000+ teams, hit **#1 Product of the Month** on Product Hunt, with hundreds of Chronicle decks being shared every day and 85% of the users saying they would be disappointed if Chronicle didn’t exist. They call us the “Cursor for Slides” - we’re building the world’s first AI-native presentation that is already loved by founders, agencies, and global teams. Experience it for yourself → Try Chronicle. You can also view a sample deck here on desktop: Intro to Chronicle.

About the Role

You’ll be focused on leading infrastructure efforts and supporting backend development for a robust, secure, and efficient platform.

What you’ll do

• Operational Excellence: Maintain and improve operational processes for the live platform, ensuring high availability, performance, and rapid issue resolution.
• Infrastructure Provisioning: Efficiently manage and provision infrastructure resources, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure that all infrastructure and deployments comply with security best practices and regulatory standards.
• Solution Design and Implementation: Architect and implement end-to-end solutions, including database design and service creation, ensuring scalability, security, and resilience.
• Backend Development: Engage in backend development activities, contributing to database design and the creation of robust services.

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This is a remote, full-time role. Our team is spread across the US, India, and Australia.

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Must Haves

• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure design and implementation.
• Strong programming and scripting skills (NodeJs, Python, JavaScript, plus Bash or Shell).
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Experience with the AWS stack is preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerisation, and serverless computing (including knowledge of GitLab, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with logging tools (Loki, Splunk, etc.) and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).
• Comprehensive understanding of networking and security principles.

Great to Have

• At least 1-2 years in a renowned software company - especially early in the career
  • We would highly value past experience of building text editors, online whiteboards or content management systems or creator and developer tools.
• Have experience working on creation and/or real-time, multi-user collaboration tools (over and above CRUD)
• Made any open source contributions to infra / devops tools.
• Have experience working in a company that values design craft.
• Previous experience in an SRE role at a growth stage company.

Why join us

Everything starts with a story. We are reimagining how the world tells their’s - and we want you to shape that future with us. We are passionate to help anyone deliver presentations that are not just bearable, but enjoyable.

• Work on a category-defining product in a $100B+ market
• We are a design led company with an appreciation of great product taste. Think of it as joining the next Notion, Figma or Linear. We offer an opportunity to build the next big productivity tool with some of the smartest people in the space
• We enable ownership. From day 1 of your time at Chronicle you will have the opportunity to own, lead and contribute to the company in more ways than just your core role (more on this below)
• We work flexibly and do not believe in driving work through forced accountability. We try to hire only the best and give them the flexibility and space to do their life’s best work at Chronicle
• Chronicle is in a powerful position with plenty of runway required to build a world class product. We’re backed by some of the best and most respected investors in the world - Accel and SquarePeg. We are fortunate to have the right people on this journey with us who understand that this is a long-term bet
• We offer competitive salaries, significant ESOPs and have open and transparent conversations about your compensation

Hiring process

We’re looking for ambitious builders who want to shape Chronicle’s future. Here’s how we approach hiring:

• ☕ Intro chat with Tejas (co-founder): A conversation about your journey, key contributions, and ambitions
• 📝 Take-home assignment + Loom video: An opportunity to show how you think and build. You’ll walk us through your solution in a short Loom. Your work and approach matter most
• 💻 Technical interview: A deep dive into your engineering craft, problem-solving, and collaboration style
• 🎨 Taste chat with Mayuresh (co-founder): A discussion about your product sense and design taste
• 🎉 Offer: If it’s a fit, we’ll move quickly to bring you on board.

You don’t need to meet every requirement in the JD. If you’re passionate about the space and excited to build a category-defining product, you’ll feel at home here.

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