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# Founding Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Government and Private Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $40,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, Linux, Distributed Systems, Domain Name System (DNS), Networking Basics, Routing, Service Discovery, System Software, TCP/IP, Virtualization Technology, Load Balancing, Build Management, Kubernetes, Docker
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3d422cdf189eda35

## About the Role

You probably have:

A strong understanding of distributed systems

Experience building production infrastructure or platform software

Deep knowledge of Linux internals

Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Docker, Firecracker, or other virtualization technologies

Familiarity with networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, DNS, and service discovery

Excellent written communication and system design skills

The ability to operate with high autonomy, make pragmatic technical decisions, and take systems from idea to production

A desire to work closely with the founders and help shape the product, architecture, and engineering organization

Bonus points:

Experience building agent-native infrastructure, AI developer platforms, or tools designed for AI coding agents

## Description

Building an agent-native cloud requires rethinking traditional infrastructure.

You're not simply deploying containers-you'll build the runtime that schedules workloads, manages networking, provisions compute, scales infrastructure, and gives AI agents the APIs they need to operate production systems.

You'll work across Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, distributed systems, and our control plane to make infrastructure that is reliable enough that developers never have to think about it.

This is a high-impact, high-ownership role with direct influence over the architecture and future of InsForge. You get to work directly with founders!

What you'll do

Work directly with the founders to design and build the compute runtime powering InsForge

Own major infrastructure systems from initial architecture through production

Build container scheduling, placement, autoscaling, and lifecycle management

Improve cold starts, provisioning speed, and deployment reliability

Design systems for both stateful and stateless workloads

Build networking primitives, including service discovery, load balancing, and private networking

Work deeply with Linux, containers, microVMs, and virtualization technologies

Optimize storage systems, snapshots, cloning, and persistent volumes

Improve platform observability, debugging, monitoring, and operational tooling

Write design documents and turn proposals into reliable production systems

Help shape the engineering culture, technical standards, and infrastructure roadmap as an early member of the team

We're looking for founding engineers who enjoy building infrastructure from first principles and want meaningful ownership over both the technology and the company.


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