About the Role
This is the first infrastructure hire at a seed-stage gig economy and flexible staffing platform, working directly with the CTO as a true founding team member. You will own the entire infra and platform layer from day one, with a clear path to leading the infrastructure team as it grows. The work directly shapes how integration runtimes and AI coding agents run reliably at scale in production.
What You'll Do
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Own and evolve a mini cloud platform for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing systems.
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Build and operate the agent infrastructure that supports coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code at scale in production.
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Design and maintain full observability across logs, metrics, and tracing for every integration and agent run.
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Ship a self-hostable, single-tenant deployment of the platform as a first-class product.
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Set the engineering patterns and standards that every future infrastructure hire will build on.
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Work as a peer to the founding team, shipping to production constantly.
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Help hire and, within roughly a year, grow into leading the infrastructure team.
What We're Looking For
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3 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 of those years in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
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Hands-on experience operating, scaling, and debugging Kubernetes in production.
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End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure or a platform, not just contributing to one.
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Practical cloud infrastructure background rather than primarily data infrastructure experience.
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Strong observability design skills across logs, metrics, and tracing for production systems.
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Comfortable using AI coding agents effectively while maintaining rigorous production engineering judgment.
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Experience building self-hostable, single-tenant product deployments is a strong plus.
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Prior experience at a venture-backed startup or as a founder; a career spent only at large enterprises does not fit this role.
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Strong computer science fundamentals from a rigorous technical degree program.
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Fluency in TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Docker.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $175,000 to $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
Location
On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, CA, United States. Candidates based elsewhere in the US are welcome with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.
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