Software Engineer - Platform (Technical Lead)
About The Position
At Superserve, our mission is to give builders the foundation to run intelligent software in production. We’re building agent sandboxes—runtime infrastructure that is fast, durable, and secure by default. This is the layer that lets AI systems actually run in the real world. We’re a small, globally distributed team based in San Francisco, backed by forward-thinking investors. We’re looking for a platform engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of our core runtime. This is not a typical backend role. You’ll define how untrusted AI agents execute safely, how systems scale under load, and how we meet security and compliance standards from first principles. You’ll work directly with the founder and own the platform end-to-end: from low-level runtime design to distributed scheduling to production reliability.
Requirements
- Built and operated distributed systems or infrastructure at scale
- Strong systems background (concurrency, isolation, networking, performance)
- Experience with Go and/or Rust (or willingness to go deep quickly)
- Deep intuition for security and reliability, not just features
- Care about how things fail, not just how they work
- Taken systems from 0 → 1 or 1 → scale
- Comfortable making high-stakes architectural decisions with incomplete information
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Firecracker, microVMs, containers, or sandboxing
- Experience with Kubernetes or building schedulers
- Experience leading or owning SOC2 / compliance in infra-heavy environments
Responsibilities
- Design and build our agent runtime infrastructure (Firecracker, Rust, Go)
- Define and enforce security boundaries for running untrusted code
- Lead SOC2 and compliance efforts from a systems perspective
- Architect and implement scheduling and orchestration systems
- Own performance, isolation, and reliability at scale
- Set technical direction and raise the bar for engineering across the company
Benefits
- Real technical authority and decision-making power
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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