Founding Software Engineer

As a Founding Software Engineer, you’ll design and build distributed systems that transform how organizations deploy and manage software at scale, owning problems end-to-end and shipping code that runs in production across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing., * Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments.

• Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define the company’s technical direction and architecture.
• Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions, with the autonomy to ship fast.
• Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure.
• Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully, balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability.

Tech stack: Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS/GCP). Nice-to-haves across Go, TypeScript, React, Postgres, S3, Helm, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi).

Must-haves 1+ years of experience as a fullstack, backend, or infra engineer who has built 0

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• Experience building devtools or deployment infrastructure tooling
• Owned product development end-to-end (0 to 1)
• Proficiency across the stack
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science
• High iteration velocity suited to an early-stage startup

Nice-to-haves

• Experience at a high-growth, VC-backed startup
• Experience with Go (Golang)
• Experience deploying and scaling Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
• Experience with TypeScript, React, Postgres, and S3
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi

$200,000 - $250,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Unlimited paid time off, * Founding-engineer scope: Work side-by-side with the founders to shape our technical architecture, product roadmap, and engineering culture, building foundational systems from first principles.
• Hard technical problems with real-world impact: Design distributed systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments in critical industries.
• Ownership and velocity: Full end-to-end ownership of the systems you build, with the autonomy to ship fast.
• Strong comp and equity: $200K-$250K base plus meaningful early-stage equity.

We’re a Y Combinator-backed, seed-stage startup building deployment infrastructure that powers mission-critical software in industries where reliability matters most - healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. Our platform lets AI and enterprise software ship securely inside customers’ own cloud environments instead of centralized cloud, replacing fragile manual workflows with intelligent, automated orchestration. Our founding team comes from leading enterprise-software and developer-platform companies, with deep experience running customer deployments across hundreds of production environments.