Infrastructure Engineer

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Kernel, you’ll architect and build the core systems that power our AI agent platform end-to-end. You’ll own critical infrastructure from conception to production, working with bleeding edge tech that needs to be both reliable and low latency. You’ll also play a foundational role in how we build Kernel’s culture.

• Experience scaling and designing distributed systems
• Interest or experience in microVMs / unikernels and developer tools

• =1 year of experience at a company with <50 people

• Technical excellence: we’re building core infrastructure that’s default open source. As a developer tool, our technical decisions are the product, and the details matter a lot.
• Low ego, high impact: you care more about building something meaningful than who gets credit
• Start-up ready: early stage sometimes means figuring it out as we go, and that energizes rather than drains you
• Excited to crush it: we’re moving fast and looking for people excited about high velocity, high impact work, and having fun along the way.

What you can expect as a Kernel

• Industry-competitive salary
• Above market equity
• Premium medical + dental coverage + dependent coverage
• Small, trusting team of senior + staff engineers
• Default async with minimal bureaucracy, only one meeting a week
• $1k / mo budget for LLM usage fees #vibecheck
• Daily lunches on us
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k + company match
• Relocation assistance, We have a simple process focused on real world collaboration and jointly getting to know each other: 1. 30-minute intro call with one of Kernel’s co-founders 2. 45-minute technical interview (virtual) 3. Half-day on-site (virtual or in-person) working with our team on relevant challenges. 4. Offer!