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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Porter Llc
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $270,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Open Source Technology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Deployment, Kubernetes
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/99d48248-e622-490e-8ce3-d8a58b1eda20/founding-engineer

## About the Role

* 5-8 years building in startups, ideally as a founding engineer or earliest technical hire
 * A track record of shipping products end to end, with production systems you can point to
 * Genuine excitement about cloud infrastructure
 * High agency without a defined playbook
 * The ability to debug complex systems under pressure

Nice to Have

 * Hands-on infrastructure experience (networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud platforms)
 * Products that scaled to meaningful traction
 * Zero-to-one product experience

## Description

Porter is hiring a Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack. This seat is for an engineer who has been a founding engineer at a startup or two, has solved problems end to end in production, and is genuinely excited about infrastructure. You will work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy, talk to customers directly, and take on the hard infrastructure problems that define the product.

What You Will Do

 * Write production-grade software that powers the Porter platform across cloud infrastructure.
 * Own the full development lifecycle from architecture to production deployment.
 * Debug at the deepest levels: shell into VMs, dig through logs and find root causes.
 * Read open-source code to debug third-party dependencies.
 * Propose and drive your own work in 2-week cycles.
 * Support customers directly and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions.


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