Founding Staff Engineer

About the role

You will be our first full-time engineer working on Outpost's product. The product has two goals:

• Delivery support: As an agency, every hour a person spends on a client is a real cost, and the product aims to reduce it. It surfaces only the threads worth acting on, learns a subreddit's culture and drafts in the brand's voice. It includes quality checks before anything goes live and provides operational tooling for marketers running the accounts. Every bit of leverage you build here improves our margin and increases how many clients one person can handle.
• Customer-facing product: Today customers see only reporting, but they should see the entire channel: what buyers are saying about them, where they stand against competitors, which threads moved their search positions and AI citations, and what to do next. This is the piece that turns an agency into a company with a product.

What We're Looking For

• Staff-level full stack engineering. You have designed, shipped and owned production systems end to end; preferably in a startup environment.
• Production LLM experience, not demos. You know evals, retries, cost and latency in practice.
• Infrastructure ownership. Cloud, data and deploys are yours. There is no platform or infra team.
• Reddit nativeness is a huge plus. Years as an active Redditor, communities you have moderated or grown, anything you have built on the Reddit API. Not a requirement, but it shortens your ramp more than anything else on this list.

Compensation

• $72,000 – $150,000 USD per year, plus 0.5% to 2% equity vesting over four years with a one year cliff.
• The cash range is wide because the role is open across the Americas and the cost of living is not. What moves you within it is your experience, your local market and how much of this you carry on your own.
• The equity moves against the cash: take less cash and you take more of the company, up to 2%, which is the top of the normal band for a first engineer.

Schedule

Full-time independent contractor arrangement.