Devops & QA Lead

About Naya

We’ve designed a place where product teams can bring all your digital sh** together (like Miro, Google docs, Figma files, PPTs, 3D, videos, images, PDFs, and 100’s more – you name it). With their stuff in one place, teams at Google, MillerKnoll, and Adidas are already saving time, reducing costs, and creating better products by using our platform, Naya.

Founded in 2019 out of Harvard’s Design School, Naya seeks to enable more thoughtful ideas to come to life.

Storytelling and marketing is a core function at Naya — the product enables storytelling and the team works closely with communities and users to tell better stories. As a marketing coordinator, you will get to share all of these features, tell user stories, build our community, plan launches, and much more.

Devops Responsibilities:

• Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for all environments (development/prototyping, testing/staging, production)
• Support deployment of custom services for all environments
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Create and maintain observability and analytics tools like Sentry, Grafana, Mixpanel and Pendo
• Monitor system performance, uptime, and scalability and report SLAs
• Implement and enforce security best practices (DevSecOps)
• Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery strategies
• Collaborate with backend/frontend teams to streamline development workflows
• Ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform
• Keep track and report on cloud expenses and optimize costs
• Support CodeOps and set security practices across team

QA Responsibilities

• Define and lead overall testing strategy (unit, integration, end-to-end, regression)
• Build and maintain automated test suites (using tools like Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, etc.)
• Implement quality gates in CI pipelines
• Lead efforts in performance, load, and security testing
• Get hands dirty in writing tests and audit our test suite regularly
• Lead a team for QA/QC and report on All Hands and Quarterly meetings
• Drive bug triage processes, track defect metrics, and ensure issue resolution
• Work with the product team and developers to ensure test coverage across feature stories

Who you are?

• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)
• Security certification or experience with SOC2/ISO audits
• Experience in fast-growing startup environments
• Familiarity with frontend and backend frameworks (e.g., React, Node.js)
• Scrappy + Growth Mindset. You will need to try many things before something sticks.
• Obsessed with quality. One small bug in a feature somewhere on the platform. It drives you bananas You love to make sure everything works all the time.
• Obsession with customers. Can you feel their pain? Do you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about their experience?
• Organized. Sticky notes, calendars, to-do lists, whatever. This job requires a lot of time management.
• Fast A bias towards action and speed of executing will be paramount.
• Collaborative. You are a team player. Getting feedback by calling friends, experts, or clients to walk through problems are the norm for you. You’ll find the answer
• Builder. By nature you love to make things. Strategies, plans, platforms.
• Tech Lover. You follow product hunt and spend your down time testing new apps.

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps and QA engineering roles
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably GCP)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (preferably Playwright)
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Leadership and team collaboration experience

Interview Process

• Make sure to read all the requirements and responsibilities
• Please apply by sending your resume and a quick note on why you think you would be a good fit at Naya. You can send this via or email directly at vivek@naya.studio.
• If you are shortlisted, there will be a take-home technical test followed by a technical interview.
• That will be followed by another shortlist and the final candidates will have 2 interviews - one with founding team and another with a subject matter expert.
• The full process will be completed in 2 weeks.