Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

Required

• Three to nine years of professional software engineering experience, including at least three years in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments.
• Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production, with end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform.
• Practical cloud infrastructure experience, production observability expertise across logs, metrics, and tracing, and familiarity with Kubernetes, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
• Experience using AI coding agents effectively while applying sound production engineering judgment.
• A completed or in-progress degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
• Experience as a funded startup founder or as an engineer at an early-stage, well-backed startup; experience with self-hosted, single-tenant deployments is valuable.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available to work on-site five days a week, or US-based with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.