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Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems

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Own the core platform end to end: ingestion and processing of very large system-log artifacts, the runtime under our AI investigation agents, and the infrastructure that keeps it all reliable for customers. This is a founding seat — architecture, tech selection, CI/CD, and reliability are your calls, and you'll have a real vote in what we build and who we hire next.


We're not hiring for a traditional lane. We want someone who builds the automation, agentic workflows, and self-scaling systems that let a small team ship like a large one.


A note on location

This role is on-site in Bengaluru. We've kept it that way on purpose: the platform work moves fastest with people in a room together, and this is the seat where that matters most. You must be eligible to work in India.


The bar

  • 4 plus years building backend or distributed systems at product companies — you've personally owned a system under real load and can talk concretely about its failure modes.
  • Full-stack capable: you'll ship the API, the pipeline, the infra, and sometimes the UI.
  • AI-native: you build harnesses and evals, not just accept autocomplete.
  • Startup DNA: you've worked at an early or high-growth startup, or genuinely want to now — ownership over lanes, speed over ceremony, many hats.
  • Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.


What you'll do

  • Build ingestion and processing for very large system-log artifacts, and the runtime our AI investigation agents run on.
  • Own the infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable for customers: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD.
  • Build the automation and agentic workflows that let a small team ship like a large one.


Bonus

  • Observability, logging, or tracing systems.
  • eBPF, Perfetto, ftrace.
  • OS internals.
  • Public OSS track record.


What we offer you

  • A front seat as we scale. Customer calls, the roadmap, the pipeline, how the company is actually doing.
  • Top-of-market salary and founding equity. You'll own a piece of what you build.
  • The AI tools you need. We use AI across writing code, reviewing it, research, ops, and internal tooling. If something would help you work better, we'll get it.
  • Early ownership, and full visibility. We move fast, and you'll help decide where.
  • Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.
  • Start-up perks and flexible time off, the kind people actually take.
  • A small team that's easy to work with. People here like solving hard problems and helping each other out.


What to expect after you apply

  • Screening call with Head of People & Business Operations
  • Technical conversation with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering
  • Technical exercise with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering
  • Final conversation with CEO
  • References, then offer


In your application, tell us what you'd own here, and the hardest thing you've shipped, a link to something you've built beats a resume.

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