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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Recruiting from Scratch
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Software Debugging, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, TypeScript, Pulumi, Enterprise Software Applications, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Build Management, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/founding-engineer-new-york-ny--52d072b8-26f1-457b-af28-bf3451beda20

## About the Role

* 1+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in high-growth startup environments.
 * Proven experience building products or infrastructure from 0-to-1.
 * Strong full-stack engineering capabilities with experience owning projects end-to-end.
 * Experience building developer tools, deployment infrastructure, platform tooling, or infrastructure products.
 * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals with the ability to work across distributed systems and platform architecture.
 * Demonstrated ownership mentality and ability to move quickly in ambiguous environments.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Preferred

 * Experience with Go (Golang).
 * Experience building Kubernetes operators, control planes, orchestration systems, or infrastructure platforms.
 * Familiarity with Docker, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, or infrastructure-as-code tooling.
 * Experience at high-growth venture-backed companies or early-stage startups.
 * Background in developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps products, or deployment systems.
 * Experience with React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native application development.
 * Strong interest in enterprise infrastructure, security, compliance, and deployment automation.
 * Previous founding engineer, startup founder, or early employee experience.

## Description

* Design and build distributed systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of enterprise environments.
 * Develop core platform infrastructure that enables secure, reliable, and automated application delivery.
 * Build developer tooling, deployment workflows, and control-plane services that improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
 * Work across the stack, contributing to backend services, APIs, platform infrastructure, developer experience tooling, and customer-facing features.
 * Partner directly with founders to define system architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical strategy.
 * Build highly available systems that support deployment, monitoring, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
 * Debug and optimize complex distributed systems running in production environments.
 * Evaluate technical tradeoffs between performance, reliability, scalability, and product velocity.
 * Own projects from concept through deployment and ongoing operational support.
 * Help establish the engineering culture and technical foundation of a rapidly growing startup.