HR Executive/ HR Officer

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a back-end engineer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the platform/dashboard backend. This would involve developing & maintaining RESTful services for vulnerability management, scan orchestration, inventory management and platform features such as on-boarding, trust centers, certificates, payment integrations, vulnerability ingestion, authentication etc. 

You should have a strong background in backend programming (Symfony preferred, or Laravel) and have experience with an event driven, async & distributed architecture. 

During the first 6 months of your role, you will be involved in the 0->1 journey of two of our upcoming products in our platform along with the respective product owners.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Symfony PHP framework. What you create is also what you own.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Collaborate with scanner teams to orchestrate scans, ingest vulnerabilities, configure scanners etc.
• Write clean, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Optimize and refactor existing code to improve performance and reliability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Triage, troubleshoot and upgrade existing systems.
• Ship code to production multiple times a day/week.
• Ensure timely delivery of the features.
• Test your own features, and write test cases for continuous automated testing.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices and standards.

What we are looking for:

• 3 years experience in a similar role or similar working experience.
• Strong background in PHP backend programming. Symfony preferred, or Laravel.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Experience with an event driven (subscribers/listeners), async (MessageHandlers & job queues) & distributed (load-balanced) architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL database and data modeling.
• Understanding of concepts such as Dependency Injection, ORM, data validation, error handling etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions (good to have).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security - helps you stand out. 

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company, and working on hard problems that matter.
• Fully remote, agile working environment.
• Good engineering culture with full ownership in design, development, release lifecycle.
• A wholesome opportunity where you get to build things from scratch, improve and ship code to production in hours, not weeks.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Experience with the security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (next one is to Wayanad).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse. Maternity benefits included.

Responsibilities

● Design, build, and deploy applied ML models (NLP, LLM-based) to solve real-world sales tech problems.

● Build and orchestrate true multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve complex tasks and workflows that reason, remember, plan, and take actions over structured and unstructured data.

● Use frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or custom planners to orchestrate LLM-powered agents.

● Prototype and productionize capabilities using foundation models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.), embeddings, and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate).

● Work with the product team to integrate intelligent agents into customer CRM workflows and GTM-facing tools.

● Design observability, evaluation and control mechanisms to ensure agent reliability, traceability, safety and frugality.

● Continuously improve agents with RF and active learning.

Requirements

● Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.

● 2+ years of experience deploying ML models or AI systems in production

environments.

● Experience with LLMs, NLP pipelines, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.

● Familiarity with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGPT, CrewAI, or custom orchestration).

● Strong Python programming skills and deep knowledge of the ML/LLM ecosystem.

● Hands-on experience with MLOps, API integrations, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

● Ability to balance rapid experimentation with robust engineering.

Nice to Have

● Experience working with sales/revenue data (CRM, Gong, Salesforce, LinkedIn).

● Familiarity with reasoning techniques (ReAct, CoT, Tree-of-Thoughts), graph orchestration, and tool chaining.

● Exposure to multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, or feedback loops in production.

● Contributions to open-source AI/agentic tools or frameworks.

Requirements:

● Understanding our data sets and how to bring them together.

● Working with our engineering team to support custom solutions offered to the product development.

● Filling the gap between development, engineering and data ops.

● Creating, maintaining and documenting scripts to support ongoing custom solutions.

● Excellent organizational skills, including attention to precise details

● Strong multitasking skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

● 5+ years experience with Python to develop scripts.

● Know your way around RESTFUL APIs.[Able to integrate not necessary to publish]

● You are familiar with pulling and pushing files from SFTP and AWS S3.

● Experience with any Cloud solutions including GCP / AWS / OCI / Azure.

● Familiarity with SQL programming to query and transform data from relational Databases.

● Familiarity to work with Linux (and Linux work environment).

● Excellent written and verbal communication skills

● Extracting, transforming, and loading data into internal databases and Hadoop

● Optimizing our new and existing data pipelines for speed and reliability

● Deploying product build and product improvements

● Documenting and managing multiple repositories of code

● Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (Casendra, MySQL)

● Hands-on experience in data pipelining and ETL. (Any of these frameworks/tools: Hadoop, BigQuery,

RedShift, Athena)

● Hands-on experience in AirFlow

● Understanding of best practices, common coding patterns and good practices around

● storing, partitioning, warehousing and indexing of data

● Experience in reading the data from Kafka topic (both live stream and offline)

● Experience in PySpark and Data frames

Responsibilities:

You’ll

● Collaborating across an agile team to continuously design, iterate, and develop big data systems.

● Extracting, transforming, and loading data into internal databases.

● Optimizing our new and existing data pipelines for speed and reliability.

● Deploying new products and product improvements.

● Documenting and managing multiple repositories of code.

Technical:

• Expertise in WordPress customization, development and knowledge of plugins and API integration Should be well versed in WordPress.
• Must have knowledge to create their own theme and able to do customization in existing/premium theme.
• Must have experience of plugin customization and also aware about a new plugin development.
• Must have the Knowledge of existing WordPress’s functions, hooks, plugins.
• Experience in WordPress is mandatory, other Open Sources/frameworks experience would be considered as an added advantage.
• WordPress integration directly from PSD/AI/Sketch would be considered as an added advantage.
• Must have knowledge of basic php and MYSQL concepts.

Non-Technical:

• Interpersonal skills
• Good communication
• Decision making
• Good Team player
• Good Listener

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionality
• Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
• Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
• Helping to formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.

Requirements 

•  3-5 years of experience working on Python Environment

•  Knowledge on software development methodologies and being able to work on projects individually or as part of a team. Should be able to work with AGILE methodology
•  Knowledge of relational databases, version control tools and other development tools
•  Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
•  Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
•  Strong interest in learning new skills/technologies and curiosity to explore various Technologies.

•  Should have strong analytical skills
•  Good communication
•  Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

Must Required Skills:

• Python 2/3
•  should have worked on one or more major Python web frameworks like Django.
• Worked with APIs development, integration of third-party APIs
• Working knowledge of MySQL databases integration with Python Environment.

Mandatory: Hands on experience working with Java or Kotlin. Very strong logical skills. Good hold on operating system concepts and data structure. Experience with web services , SQL Lite , camera kit , image caching concepts, keychain , past experience working with one of the design patterns like MVC / MVVM / MVP , network check implementation.

Good to have:  Rx-Swift experience , video / image filter experience , media player usage , complex UX effects , couch-db , RealM.Knowledge of GIT management , Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practices.

Soft Skills: Strong communication skills , high spirited , eager to learn , able to perform in a high pressure environment