Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Posted:
8/14/2026, 3:34:06 AM

Location(s):
California, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$175k–$300k/yr

About the Role

This is a rare opportunity to join a seed-stage agentic integration platform as the first infrastructure hire, working directly with the CTO on a clear leadership track. You will own the runtime, agent infrastructure, and self-hostable story from day one — setting the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on. Within a year, the expectation is that you grow into leading the team that owns this domain.

What You'll Do

  • Own a mini cloud platform — build and maintain a durable execution runtime with sandboxed isolation and self-healing capabilities (think: a Vercel-style platform for integration runtime).

  • Build agent infrastructure — design, ship, and scale the systems that run coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code in production.

  • Deliver full observability — design and implement observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) across every integration and agent, packaged as a single-tenant, self-hostable product.

  • Set foundational engineering patterns — make architectural decisions that the entire future infrastructure team will build upon.

  • Hire and grow the team — participate actively in recruiting and, within ~12 months, transition into leading the infrastructure domain.

  • Ship constantly — operate as a peer to the founders; work fast and get things to production regularly.

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • 3+ years of experience at a high-growth startup 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 command of TypeScript and comfort working with PostgreSQL.

  • Track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end — not just operating it, but designing and evolving it.

  • Comfortable operating as a founding-level engineer: high ownership, low ceremony, direct communication with leadership.

Nice to have:

  • Experience building self-hostable / single-tenant deployment products.

  • Background in durable execution frameworks or sandboxed code execution environments.

  • Prior experience hiring and/or leading a small infrastructure or platform team.

  • Background at top-tier engineering organizations (e.g., large cloud providers, developer tooling companies).

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $175,000 – $300,000 USD annually

  • Leadership track with direct ownership and early-stage equity

  • Visa sponsorship available

Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA, United States. Remote work is not available for this position.