Founding Engineer New York City, NY 200K-270K
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New York City, NY - USA
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Job Summary
Location: New York City NY (in-person 5 days a week)
Compensation: $200000 - $270000 base plus competitive equity
Join a profitable fast-growing cloud infrastructure platform as a Founding Engineer building at every level of the stack with full ownership and autonomy.
What Youll Own
- Write production-grade software that powers the platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle from architectural design through production deployment
- Debug at the deepest levels: shell into virtual machines dig through log files find root causes
- Read through open-source repositories to debug third-party dependencies
- Collaborate with the team on anything that touches users infrastructure and provide meaningful feedback
- Work in two-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work
- Talk to customers directly and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions
What Youll Bring
- 5-8 years of experience building in startups ideally including founding engineer or earliest technical hire roles
- A track record of shipping products end-to-end with code and systems you can point to in production
- Genuine excitement about infrastructure problems and the infrastructure space specifically
- High agency and comfort operating without a defined playbook or process
- Strong ability to debug and reason through complex systems under pressure
- Based in or willing to relocate to New York City
Nice to Have
- Hands-on infrastructure experience with networking Kubernetes distributed systems or cloud platforms
- Experience shipping products that scaled to meaningful traction or user base
- Experience taking a product or feature from zero to one
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching between technical and strategic work
This is a real founding seat at a profitable Series A company growing fast for someone who wants to go deep on hard infrastructure problems with full ownership over how theyre solved.
