About the Role
This is a founding-team-level Staff Engineer role at a seed-stage AI/data infrastructure company building a real-time people data and agent platform. You'll work directly with executive leadership to shape the technical strategy and core architecture that powers the product — this is a high-ownership, high-impact position for someone who thinks like a founder.
What You'll Do
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Design, build, and operate core infrastructure including APIs, LLM-powered workflows, scraping systems, and large-scale knowledge graph architecture.
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Architect and maintain production-grade systems capable of handling millions of API requests, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
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Own projects end-to-end — from ambiguous problem definition through deployment and iteration — shipping quickly without sacrificing system integrity.
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Collaborate directly with the CEO and CTO on technical decisions, roadmap priorities, and foundational architectural choices.
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Contribute broadly across the stack, including developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds.
What We're Looking For
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10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping to production at scale.
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Hands-on experience with Linux servers in a production environment.
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Experience with agent orchestration, LLMs, or web scraping.
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Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), distributed systems, microservices, and data pipelines.
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Background at a high-growth tech company or early-stage startup; prior founding experience is a strong plus.
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High agency, comfort with ambiguity, and a first-principles approach to problem solving.
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Currently based in San Francisco (on-site role).
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $250,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, CA, USA.
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