Founding Engineer

About the Role

Join a Series A infrastructure software team building a platform for deploying and managing applications in customers' cloud environments. As a Founding Engineer, you will take ownership of complex technical work across the infrastructure stack and help shape the product through direct customer collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Build production-grade software across cloud infrastructure surfaces.

• Own technical work from architectural design through production deployment.

• Investigate production issues by accessing virtual machines, analyzing logs, and tracing root causes.

• Read and debug open-source repositories to understand third-party dependencies.

• Collaborate with teammates on infrastructure-related customer needs and share product feedback.

• Propose and drive work independently within two-week project cycles.

• Talk with customers directly and incorporate their needs into infrastructure decisions.

What We're Looking For

• Five to eight years of experience building and shipping complex production software beyond CRUD applications.

• Experience as a founding engineer at approximately two startups.

• A strong background in distributed systems or infrastructure.

• Experience owning end-to-end technical problems, from architecture through deployment.

• Sound judgment debugging complex production systems under pressure, including system-level investigation using shell access and log analysis.

• Ability to work independently in environments without established playbooks or processes.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $270,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York City, New York.