Founding Backend Engineer

• Improve job execution reliability, queueing behavior, failure recovery, and production observability
• Design systems that scale expensive workflows without making the product feel slow or unpredictable to users
• Build deployment, monitoring, and incident-response workflows appropriate for an early but serious production system
• Improve cost efficiency across compute, storage, networking, and third-party services
• Create internal tools that make debugging and operating the system easier for the whole team
• Partner across the team to connect product requirements with robust technical systems

• Experience operating production infrastructure or high-throughput backend systems
• Strong debugging ability across services, networking, storage, and cloud environments
• Familiarity with queues, object storage, databases, observability tooling, deployment automation, and cost/performance tradeoffs
• Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous reliability problems, even without a clear root cause
• Practical judgment on when to automate, simplify, or build the smallest robust solution
• Comfortable using AI tools to move faster, while using personal judgment to define the problem and drive the solution
• Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco, CA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience communicating infrastructure tradeoffs to non-infrastructure engineers
• History of taking ownership of outcomes, not just assigned tickets
• Comfort making infrastructure decisions independently, without a fully-defined spec

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.