Founding Engineer – Infrastructure

About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is the first infrastructure hire at a fast-moving agentic integration platform building for the real economy. You'll work directly with the CTO as a true peer and founding team member — owning the entire infrastructure and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infra team within roughly 12 months.

Think of the core product as a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems — plus the agent infrastructure and observability story that ties it all together.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and own the integration runtime platform — durable execution, sandboxed isolation, self-healing behaviour (think: a Vercel-style platform purpose-built for integration workloads).

- Own the agent infrastructure — coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code, running reliably at scale in production.

- Deliver full observability across every integration and agent run, including a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment path for enterprise customers.

- Set the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on.

- Participate in infra-related hiring and grow into leading the team that owns this domain.

- Ship to production constantly, collaborating closely with founders and engineering peers.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required

- 3+ years of hands-on infrastructure or platform engineering experience at a high-growth startup or equivalent fast-paced environment.

- Production Kubernetes experience — deployment, day-to-day operations, and debugging at 2 a.m.

- Track record of owning infrastructure or a platform end-to-end, not merely contributing to one.

- Experience building or operating self-hosted, single-tenant deployment architectures.

- Proficiency in TypeScript development.

- Hands-on experience deploying and scaling PostgreSQL.

- Solid working knowledge of AWS cloud services.

- Docker / containerized environment experience.

- Ability and willingness to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (relocation support available).

- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; comfortable working directly with founders.

Nice to Have

- Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, or AI-driven developer tooling.

- Background in integration platforms, workflow engines, or durable execution frameworks (e.g., Temporal).

- Prior experience hiring or leading a small infrastructure team.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Salary: $175,000 – $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.

- Early-stage equity as a founding team member.

- Visa sponsorship available.

LOCATION

- On-site — San Francisco, CA, United States.

- Relocation support available for the right candidate.