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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $83,200.0 - $104,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Log Files, Open Source Technology, Software Deployment, Virtual Machines, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** July 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us53249c777fe77649370a694c315f3ac6

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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

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