Founding Engineer - Infrastructure

About the Role

This is the first infrastructure hire at a seed-stage agentic integration platform, working directly with the CTO on a clear leadership track. You will own the full infra and platform layer from day one, setting the patterns every future infrastructure hire builds on. The work is foundational: what you ship defines how the product scales.

What You'll Do

• Design and operate a mini cloud platform providing durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing for an integration runtime.

• Build and scale the agent infrastructure that runs coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code in production.

• Implement full observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for every integration and agent.

• Ship a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment of the platform as a standalone product.

• Set engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire will follow.

• Help recruit and, within roughly a year, grow into leading the infrastructure team.

• Work as a peer to the founding team and ship to production constantly.

What We're Looking For

• 3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally at a high-growth startup backed by a top-tier investor or founded/co-founded by you.

• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or US-based with a firm, dated plan to relocate there; able to work on-site five days a week.

• Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.

• End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform, not just contribution to one.

• Strong observability experience covering logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.

• Experience building or shipping self-hostable, single-tenant product deployments is a plus.

• Comfortable using AI coding agents effectively while maintaining production-quality engineering judgment.

• Solid CS or quantitative fundamentals from a university degree (completed or in progress); strong academic foundations preferred.

• Fluency with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker alongside Kubernetes.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship (O-1) is available for qualified candidates.

Location

On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, CA, United States.