Founding CTO (Cloud Platform DevOps SRE)

Startup Wise Guys (SWG) is one of Europes most active B2B accelerators. Through Founders Club experienced builders form teams validate market pain and ship the first scalable product version in a 12-week online execution program.

If youve spent your career making systems reliable scalable securefor someone else this is your chance to build your own platform venture.

This is a co-founder opportunity. The goal is to help you become (or join) a founding team and launch a venture.

Tasks

• Validate platform/infrastructure pain with real buyers (Dev IT Sec Ops)
• Define MVP with clear ROI (cost reduction uptime compliance speed)
• Build the product foundation: infra observability deployment security baseline
• Make smart build-vs-buy decisions to ship quickly
• Prepare a credible scaling story (architecture reliability unit economics)

Requirements

• 7 years in backend/platform engineering DevOps/SRE or cloud architecture
• Strong grasp of reliability & scale (observability CI/CD infra-as-code cloud)
• Ability to prototype quickly (not just design)
• Founder-level ownership mentality (you want to build a company)
• 1012h/week for 12 weeks

Benefits

• Ship in 12 weeks: validated problem MVP iteration loop
• Execution rhythm & accountability (1012h/week deliverables)
• Access to 500 mentors (B2B pricing GTM fundraising)
• 440 alumni startups / 40 countries (benchmarks intros learnings)
• Founder-grade CTO toolkit: scoping architecture narrative investor readiness

Note: Participation includes a ticket after acceptance to ensure commitment and quality.

Apply if you want to stop being the platform person behind the scenes and build your own venture.