Founding Engineer

About the role

A Series A, profitable developer-infrastructure company building a cloud platform that gives the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost — letting engineering teams instantly spin up production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their code, and monitor and manage it, so they can focus on building product instead of managing infrastructure.

Growing 8x in ARR since 2022, with a flat team and a high-ownership culture. Founded 2020, 11–50 people. Industry: developer infrastructure / cloud.

What You'll Be Doing

• Write production-grade software powering the platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces
• Own the 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 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 and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions

Requirements

• 5-8 years startup experience
• Founding engineer
• Founding engineer at :2 startups
• Strong infra background OR exceptional generalist with infra excitement
• End-to-end ownership in production
• NYC in-person 5 days, relocation covered

Green Flags

• Founding engineer or earliest technical hire at a startup
• Hands-on infrastructure experience
• Shipped products at meaningful scale
• High slope; figures things out without a playbook

Red Flags

• Only big-tech infrastructure experience
• Cannot articulate why infrastructure excites you
• Perfectionist who optimizes for elegance over shipping
• Needs a defined scope, team structure, or process to operate