Salary: $240,000 - $350,000 + meaningful equity

Contract: Permanent Start: ASAP

Location: New York, NY / San Francisco, CA (Onsite preferred; remote for exceptional candidates) Eligibility: Open to candidates with existing work authorization - US Residents Only

🚨 Please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Ownership of core cloud infrastructure end-to-end
Expert-level distributed systems, storage, networking, and containerisation (Kubernetes)
Proficiency in both Python and TypeScript
Startup or VC-backed company experience
Experience at a developer tools or infrastructure-as-a-product company (e.g. Pulumi, DigitalOcean, HashiCorp)

🚀 Join a well-funded, early-stage startup operating at the frontier of AI and cloud infrastructure. They're building a genuinely new product category - one that puts powerful, AI-configured personal infrastructure directly in the hands of everyday users. The vision is ambitious, the backing is serious, and the team is small by design.

This is greenfield infrastructure work at the architecture level. You won't be maintaining legacy systems - you'll be building the foundation from scratch.

ℹ️ Very Important Notes

This is a deep infrastructure role - not suitable for frontend-heavy or product-only engineers
You must be comfortable owning systems design with no hand-holding
Occasional customer-facing work required - you'll help translate real-world usage into platform decisions
High autonomy expected - you design, build, operate, and iterate

Must-Haves

Expert knowledge of distributed systems, storage/databases, networking, and containerisation
Deep Kubernetes experience in production environments
Strong Python and TypeScript across backend and full-stack contexts
Proven track record of owning infra in a VC-backed or high-growth startup
Ability to make critical architectural decisions independently
Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
Self-driven, high-agency, and comfortable with ambiguity

Bonus Experience

Prior experience at developer-focused infra companies (Pulumi, DigitalOcean, HashiCorp, etc.)
Experience building CI/CD pipelines for distributed systems
Platform-level feature development for end-users
Technical founder or early founding engineer background

What You'll Be Doing

Infrastructure Ownership

Take full ownership of core cloud infrastructure from design through deployment and maintenance
Build and manage distributed systems, storage, networking, and containerisation layers
Make architectural decisions that will power the platform at scale

Platform Engineering

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable delivery
Build platform-level features that end-users interact with directly
Ensure infrastructure directly translates into a seamless consumer product experience

Collaboration

Partner closely with product engineers to bridge infra and product
Feed operational insight back into architecture and roadmap decisions
Contribute to a flat, high-ownership team moving at serious speed

What They're Looking For

A technically exceptional engineer who owns infra like a founder
Someone who thrives in ambiguity and moves fast without sacrificing quality
A builder with strong opinions on systems design and the confidence to execute them
An engineer who wants real scope, real equity, and real impact from day one

If you meet the above requirements and want to build the infrastructure layer for the next generation of personal cloud computing, get in touch for a fast response.

Systems Engineer | Distributed Systems | Python | TypeScript | Kubernetes | Must have Startup Experience

Benefits