Client Roles
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a Series A infrastructure software team building a platform for deploying and managing applications in customers' cloud environments. As a Founding Engineer, you will take ownership of complex technical work across the infrastructure stack and help shape the product through direct customer collaboration.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build production-grade software across cloud infrastructure surfaces.
- Own technical work from architectural design through production deployment.
- Investigate production issues by accessing virtual machines, analyzing logs, and tracing root causes.
- Read and debug open-source repositories to understand third-party dependencies.
- Collaborate with teammates on infrastructure-related customer needs and share product feedback.
- Propose and drive work independently within two-week project cycles.
- Talk with customers directly and incorporate their needs into infrastructure decisions.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Five to eight years of experience building and shipping complex production software beyond CRUD applications.
- Experience as a founding engineer at approximately two startups.
- A strong background in distributed systems or infrastructure.
- Experience owning end-to-end technical problems, from architecture through deployment.
- Sound judgment debugging complex production systems under pressure, including system-level investigation using shell access and log analysis.
- Ability to work independently in environments without established playbooks or processes.