Founding Engineer

Build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack - production software, customer-facing problem solving, and ownership of complex technical surfaces inside the platform. Work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work, talk to customers directly, and collaborate closely with the team on hard infrastructure problems. What you’ll be doing

• Write production-grade software powering the platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces
• Own the end-to-end development lifecycle, from architectural design through production deployment
• Debug at the deepest levels: shell into virtual machines, dig through log files, find root causes
• Read through open-source repositories to debug third-party dependencies
• Collaborate on anything that touches users’ infrastructure and provide meaningful feedback
• Work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work
• Talk to customers directly and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions

Tech stack: Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, distributed systems, networking, Join a dynamic team as a Frontend Software Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in developing exceptional user interfaces for high-impact customer projects. Your expertise …

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• 5-8 years startup experience
• Founding engineer
• Founding engineer at ~2 startups
• Strong infra background OR exceptional generalist with infra excitement
• End-to-end ownership in production
• NYC in-person 5 days, relocation covered

Green Flags

• Founding engineer or earliest technical hire at a startup
• Hands-on infrastructure experience
• Shipped products at meaningful scale
• High slope; figures things out without a playbook

• Cannot articulate why infrastructure excites you
• Perfectionist who optimizes for elegance over shipping
• Needs a defined scope, team structure, or process to operate

Why Join

• Real founding seat at a profitable Series A growing 8x YoY
• Deep infrastructure work across the full stack, with end-to-end ownership
• Full autonomy from day one; flat structure and direct access to leadership
• 30 days PTO, 30 days remote per year, relocation covered, + $40.00-50.00 per hour, + $20.00-45.00 per hour

About the Company A Series A, profitable developer-infrastructure company building a cloud platform that gives the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost - letting engineering teams instantly spin up production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their code, and monitor and manage it, so they can focus on building product instead of managing infrastructure. Growing 8x in ARR since 2022, with a flat team and a high-ownership culture. Founded 2020 · 11-50 people · Industry: developer infrastructure / cloud