Founding Production Systems Engineer

• Improve reliability of job execution, queueing behavior, and failure recovery
• Build monitoring, alerting, and incident-response workflows suited for an early but serious production system
• Design systems that scale expensive workflows without hurting speed or predictability
• Improve cost efficiency across compute, storage, and third-party services
• Build internal tools that simplify debugging and system operations for the team
• Partner with the broader team to align product needs with robust technical solutions

• Experience operating production infrastructure or high-throughput backend systems
• Strong debugging skills across services, networking, storage, and cloud environments
• Familiarity with queues, object storage, databases, and observability tooling
• Comfortable owning ambiguous reliability problems without a predefined root cause
• Practical judgment about when to automate, simplify, or build minimal robust solutions
• Comfortable using AI tools to increase speed, while relying on personal judgment to solve problems
• Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco, CA, * Experience clearly communicating tradeoffs to non-infrastructure engineers
• Track record of owning outcomes independently, not just executing tickets
• Comfortable making infrastructure decisions with limited oversight

Tools & Technology:

• Queueing systems and object storage
• Databases and observability tooling
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment automation
• AI-assisted development tools

$6,000 - $8,000 a month - Contract, We connect top talent with vetted employers, competitive pay, and real growth opportunities.