Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

This is the first infrastructure hire at a fast-moving agentic integration platform building for the real economy. You’ll work directly with the CTO as a true peer and founding team member - owning the entire infrastructure and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infra team within roughly 12 months.

Think of the core product as a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems - plus the agent infrastructure and observability story that ties it all together., * Build and own the integration runtime platform - durable execution, sandboxed isolation, self-healing behaviour (think: a Vercel-style platform purpose-built for integration workloads).

• Own the agent infrastructure - coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code, running reliably at scale in production.
• Deliver full observability across every integration and agent run, including a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment path for enterprise customers.
• Set the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on.
• Participate in infra-related hiring and grow into leading the team that owns this domain.
• Ship to production constantly, collaborating closely with founders and engineering peers.

Required

• 3+ years of hands-on infrastructure or platform engineering experience at a high-growth startup or equivalent fast-paced environment.
• Production Kubernetes experience - deployment, day-to-day operations, and debugging at 2 a.m.
• Track record of owning infrastructure or a platform end-to-end, not merely contributing to one.
• Experience building or operating self-hosted, single-tenant deployment architectures.
• Proficiency in TypeScript development.
• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling PostgreSQL.
• Solid working knowledge of AWS cloud services.
• Docker / containerized environment experience.
• Ability and willingness to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (relocation support available).
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; comfortable working directly with founders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, or AI-driven developer tooling.
• Background in integration platforms, workflow engines, or durable execution frameworks (e.g., Temporal).
• Prior experience hiring or leading a small infrastructure team.

• Salary: $175,000 - $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
• Early-stage equity as a founding team member.
• Visa sponsorship available.