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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** ONE STOP COLLECTIBLE CORP
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $270,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Distributed Systems, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-clera-9822016

## About the Role

* 3+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals - the kind where you reason from first principles.
 * Proficiency in Rust or Go, with hands-on experience building distributed systems (dealbreaker).
 * Experience designing and shipping core infrastructure components - query engines, storage layers, or graph internals - in a production environment (dealbreaker).
 * Comfort owning large, ambiguous problems without a playbook and an ownership mindset that extends to design docs and architecture decisions.
 * Track record of shipping production systems under real load.
 * Nice to have: experience building or scaling databases or storage infrastructure; open-source contributions in systems-level projects; prior founding engineer or early-stage infrastructure background.

## Description

This is a founding engineer role on a small, high-conviction infrastructure team building a graph-native context and memory platform purpose-built for AI agents. You'll own significant pieces of the core - query engine, graph storage internals, distributed systems - and make architecture decisions that shape the product for years to come. This is not a feature factory; every engineer here has direct influence on the architecture, the roadmap, and the culture., * Own and ship core infrastructure spanning query execution, the graph storage layer, and distributed systems.

 * Make architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
 * Contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the category.
 * Participate in architecture reviews and navigate hard technical trade-offs with real production consequences.
 * Help raise the technical ceiling as the team grows.


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