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Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

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About the Role

This is the first infrastructure hire at an early-stage agentic integration platform, working directly with the CTO on a leadership track. You'll own the entire infra and platform layer — from durable execution runtime to agent infrastructure to observability — and set the patterns every future infrastructure engineer builds on. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role with a clear path into leading the team.

What You'll Do

  • Own and build a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing infrastructure.
  • Design and operate the agent infrastructure that enables coding agents to write, test, and deploy integration code at production scale.
  • Implement full observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) across every integration and agent.
  • Ship a single-tenant, self-hostable deployment of the product with end-to-end observability included.
  • Establish engineering patterns and standards that future infrastructure hires will build on.
  • Work as a peer to the founding team, shipping to production constantly.
  • Help recruit and, within a year, grow into leading the infrastructure team.

What We're Looking For

  • 3+ years of engineering experience at a high-growth startup, comfortable in fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) for production systems.
  • Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
  • Strong experience with TypeScript and PostgreSQL.
  • Background building platform or runtime infrastructure (think: execution sandboxing, durable workflows, or developer platforms).
  • Experience with or strong interest in self-hostable / single-tenant deployment models.
  • Comfortable operating as a technical leader: setting direction, defining standards, and eventually growing a team.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $175,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.

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