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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Founding Engineer - Full Stack - **Company:** Stealth AI Startup - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Systems, Key Management, Software Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Pulumi, Multi-Cloud, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations, Api Design, Terraform - **Published:** July 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=063b9ebd40f6c4a5 ## About the Role We are hiring across Senior (L5 equivalent) and Staff (L6 equivalent) levels. The work is the same. The difference is depth of experience and the scope of the systems you have built and owned. * 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience building and shipping production software, with a track record of maintaining it in production. * Experience building distributed systems, backend services, or infrastructure platforms with an eye for reliability and performance. * Working knowledge of cloud-native technologies: Kubernetes, containerized workloads, service-oriented architectures, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) across AWS, Azure, or GCP. * Strong systems fundamentals: API design, backend architecture, performance, and reliability. * Strong programming proficiency in Rust or C++, with experience writing performant production grade code. * High ownership and bias for action in 0-to-1 environments. You are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving work from idea through launch. * Excellent communication. You can work directly with customers, discuss trade-offs on the merits, and collaborate closely with a small team., * Experience building customer-facing, large-scale distributed systems and applications: production software that real users and enterprises depend on. * Experience building and deploying solutions across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. * Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, including training, inference, or the platforms and pipelines around them. * Familiarity with security domains such as identity, access control, key management, or trusted computing. * Prior startup or early-stage experience, or a big-company background and strong conviction that it is time for something different. ## Description This is a hands-on building role. You will report to the CEO and collaborate closely with our founding Product Architect on the product platform. We expect roughly 80% of your time on product development, with the rest split between product research and direct customer support. * Design, build, test, and operate production-grade features and services. * Build and run systems that deploy across public cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. * Contribute to architecture and technical decisions, partnering with the Product Architects on the bets that shape the platform. * Take part in product research: prototyping new approaches and evaluating emerging tools and techniques. * Work directly with early customers to turn real-world requirements into working capabilities and to support them in production. * Use AI-driven development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) as a daily multiplier on velocity and quality. * Help set the bar for engineering quality and craft as the team grows. ## Related Videos - [Why segmenting your infrastructure into tiers makes your infrastructure design better](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1960-why-segmenting-your-infrastructure-into-tiers-makes-your-infrastructure-design-better) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Terraform for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/3-terraform-for-developers) - [Implementing Feature Environments with AWS and Terraform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/531-implementing-feature-environments-with-aws-and-terraform) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this)