Founding Infrastructure Engineer

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.