Founding Engineer

COMPRESSUS INC

San Francisco, CA, United States

about 1 month ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.indeed.com

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) OAuth Concurrency Backend Free and Open-Source Software Machine Learning Operations Front End Software Development

Requirements

A cracked full-stack engineer who enjoys a high-paced startup environment, takes pride in what they build and owns it end to end.
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production systems on AWS.
Python/basic ML Ops skills. Experience in scaling AI infra products is a plus.
Proactive, strong communicator with fast response time, team player

Tech Requirements

Strong backend engineering fundamentals
Experience with concurrency and distributed systems
Experience deploying and scaling production backend services on AWS
Ability to work across systems (Python + light frontend)
Excellent Claude Code (or similar) user

Nice to have

Open-source contributions
Startup experience
OAuth / API auth flows

About the company

We’re building state-of-the-art context compression. Our mission is to become the “Cloudflare for LLMs” - a compression layer embedded into most LLM pipelines by default.
We’re a team of ex-EPFL MSc/PhDs from dlab. We started by publishing papers, then got into YC and started making money helping companies cut their LLM costs.
We run the business like a research lab: form hypotheses, kill the ones that don’t work, double down on the ones that do.