Founding Software Engineer
About The Position
Our Client (YC F24) builds deployment infrastructure that lets B2B SaaS & AI companies ship mission-critical software directly into customer clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) or on-prem — in minutes, not months. Secure BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) with sanitized telemetry, control-plane orchestration, reliable updates, and observability built for data-sovereign industries like healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and defense-adjacent verticals. The Role Founding Software Engineer (full-time, in-person NYC) $160K–$220K base + 0.5–2% equity Join as an early engineer (~#3) on a tiny, high-velocity team with founders from Palantir, Vercel, Capital One. Own end-to-end: design & ship distributed systems orchestrating deployments across hundreds of heterogeneous customer environments. Build from first principles — we're creating new tooling, not configuring existing stacks.
Requirements
- 3+ years shipping production systems (ideally 1+ at high-growth/VC-backed startup)
- Hands-on Kubernetes + cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure): built/scaled clusters, not just applied YAML
- Strong Go (Golang): concurrent systems, gRPC, reliable services
- Full-stack ownership: backend APIs/services + TypeScript/React comfort
- True 0→1: designed, built, shipped, debugged, iterated on infra tooling or dev platforms
- High iteration velocity: ship fast, user feedback loops, pragmatic tradeoffs
Nice To Haves
- Built devtools/infra products (deployment platforms, observability agents, orchestration layers)
- Deep Helm/Docker + IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)
- Observability: Prometheus/Grafana/Loki
- CI/CD integrations (GitHub Actions etc.)
- Postgres/S3 + distributed debugging at scale
Responsibilities
- Core orchestration: reliable agents/controllers in customer K8s clusters for installs, updates, rollbacks, config sync
- Secure telemetry pipelines: sanitized logs/metrics/alerts back to the control plane without exposing customer data
- Control plane services + APIs: multi-tenant reliability, performance scaling, zero-downtime across clouds
- Production hardening: debug chaos in real enterprise envs (compliance, security, air-gaps)
- Shape architecture, roadmap, and engineering culture — direct founder access
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- full medical/dental/vision
- meals
- professional stipend
- retreats
- Ground-floor equity in exploding regulated SaaS/AI space
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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