Founding Platform Engineer
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workloads Infrastructure automation Authentication and platform security Internal APIs and platform architecture Reliability, observability, and scalability This is not a typical CRUD SaaS role. The engineering challenges involve orchestration systems, scientific workloads, distributed compute, and infrastructure abstraction. What We're Looking For We care much more about engineering depth and systems thinking than specific buzzwords. Strong fit: Strong backend engineering fundamentals Experience building systems from scratch Comfortable owning architecture decisions Ability to move across backend, infra, and platform concerns Startup mindset and high ownership mentality Pragmatic engineering judgment Technologies we currently use: Python TypeScript React FastAPI Docker PostgreSQL AWS / Scaleway Linux environments Bonus experience: Kubernetes Distributed systems Job schedulers / queues Infrastructure tooling SLURM or HPC systems Scientific computing GPU workloads Platform engineering Why
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Join Early Founding-level ownership Equity package Deep technical challenges Opportunity to shape the architecture from day one Small team with fast execution Real-world scientific impact We are looking for builders who want to work on hard infrastructure problems with high autonomy and long-term upside.