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# Founding Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

- **Company:** SMVSOFT LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Log Files, Open Source Technology, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Virtual Machines, Kubernetes
- **Published:** June 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=722af4f42d7af0d2

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Technical troubleshooting support?, * 5-8 years of building in startups (roughly two startups' worth of experience); founding engineer or earliest technical hire roles preferred

 * Track record of shipping products end-to-end; can point to code you wrote and systems you owned in production
 * Genuine excitement about infrastructure problems and the infrastructure space; you want to work on cloud infrastructure specifically
 * High agency; comfortable operating without a defined playbook or process
 * Ability to debug and reason through complex systems under pressure

Nice-to-Have

 * Prior hands-on infrastructure experience (networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud platforms)
 * Shipped products that scaled to meaningful traction or user base
 * Experience moving from zero to one on a product or feature; built something novel
 * Comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching between technical and strategic work

## Description

Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack. This is a seat for an engineer who has been a founding engineer at a startup or two before, has tackled problems end to end in production environments, and is genuinely excited about building at an infrastructure-specific company.

The work spans production-grade software development, customer-facing problem solving, and ownership of complex technical surfaces.

If you are excited about going deep on infrastructure and want a real founding seat at a profitable Series A company growing 8x year over year, this is the role.

What You'll Own

 * Write production-grade software that powers Porter's platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces
 * Own end-to-end development lifecycle, from architectural design through production deployment
 * Debug at the deepest levels: shell into virtual machines, dig through log files, find root causes
 * Read through open-source repositories to debug third-party dependencies
 * Collaborate with the team on anything that touches users' infrastructure and provide meaningful feedback
 * Work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work
 * Talk to customers directly via Slack and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions


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