Founding Software Engineer

Founding Software Engineer

Company 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 0.52% 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 were creating new tooling not configuring existing stacks.

What Youll Own

• 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

Must-Have Builder Profile

• 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 01: designed built shipped debugged iterated on infra tooling or dev platforms

• High iteration velocity: ship fast user feedback loops pragmatic tradeoffs

Nice-to-Haves (big accelerators)

• 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

Life @ Our Client

• Fully in-person (5 days/week) NYC we build serious infra together

• YC-backed seed with top investors and real traction (customers deploying now)

• Unlimited PTO full medical/dental/vision meals professional stipend retreats

• Ground-floor equity in exploding regulated SaaS/AI space

No visa citizens / authorized only.

If youve shipped real deployment/orchestration tooling (Render/Vercel/Railway-style but for enterprise BYOC) thrive in distributed systems complexity and crave massive ownership at seed apply now.

DM me or email with Founding Engineer Our Client resume. Referrals prioritized.

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