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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Terrabyte Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Software Engineering, Backend
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/884b51b1-84b0-4e76-8599-9d4bcb832635

## About the Role

* 4-7 years of software engineering experience with strong fundamentals across backend and infrastructure
 * Demonstrated track record building and scaling production systems
 * Comfortable in early-stage ambiguity - you can define the problem, not just solve it
 * Fluent with modern AI development tools (Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.) alongside traditional engineering practices
 * High ownership mindset and a bias toward shipping

## Description

We're looking for a Founding Engineer to help us scale our product and engineering foundation as we grow. You'll be one of the first engineers at Terrabyte, which means you'll have significant ownership over technical direction, architecture decisions, and the culture we build together. This isn't a role for someone who wants to execute a pre-written roadmap - it's for someone who wants to help write it.

You'll work directly with the founders, move fast, and care deeply about building systems that are both production-ready and built to last.
What You'll Do

 * Architect and build scalable backend and infrastructure systems that power Terrabyte's core product
 * Work across the full stack as needed - owning problems end-to-end rather than handing off at boundaries
 * Establish engineering standards, tooling, and practices that will scale with the team
 * Collaborate closely with founders on product direction and technical trade-offs
 * Leverage modern AI coding tools to move faster and build more


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