Founding Engineer - Infrastructure
Summary
Build and own the infrastructure and platform layer for an agentic integration platform, including durable execution, observability, and self-hostable deployments.
About the Role
This is the first infrastructure hire at an early-stage agentic integration platform, working directly with the CTO on a leadership track. You'll own the entire infra and platform layer — from durable execution runtime to agent infrastructure to observability — and set the patterns every future infrastructure engineer builds on. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role with a clear path into leading the team.
What You'll Do
Own and build a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing infrastructure.
Design and operate the agent infrastructure that enables coding agents to write, test, and deploy integration code at production scale.
Implement full observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) across every integration and agent.
Ship a single-tenant, self-hostable deployment of the product with end-to-end observability included.
Establish engineering patterns and standards that future infrastructure hires will build on.
Work as a peer to the founding team, shipping to production constantly.
Help recruit and, within a year, grow into leading the infrastructure team.
What We're Looking For
3+ years of engineering experience at a high-growth startup, comfortable in fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments.
Proven experience designing and implementing observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) for production systems.
Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.
Strong experience with TypeScript and PostgreSQL.
Background building platform or runtime infrastructure (think: execution sandboxing, durable workflows, or developer platforms).
Experience with or strong interest in self-hostable / single-tenant deployment models.
Comfortable operating as a technical leader: setting direction, defining standards, and eventually growing a team.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $175,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.
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