{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a5e288a36f8616689e43a805","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a5e288a36f8616689e43a805","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a5e288a36f8616689e43a805","title":"Founding Infrastructure Engineer","description":"About The RoleThis is a rare opportunity to join a seed-stage agentic integration platform as the first infrastructure hire, working directly with the CTO on a clear leadership track. You will own the runtime, agent infrastructure, and self-hostable story from day one - setting the engineering patterns that every future infrastructure hire builds on. Within a year, the expectation is that you grow into leading the team that owns this domain.What You'll DoOwn a mini cloud platform - build and maintain a durable execution runtime with sandboxed isolation and self-healing capabilities (think: a Vercel-style platform for integration runtime).Build agent infrastructure - design, ship, and scale the systems that run coding agents writing, testing, and deploying integration code in production.Deliver full observability - design and implement observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) across every integration and agent, packaged as a single-tenant, self-hostable product.Set foundational engineering patterns - make architectural decisions that the entire future infrastructure team will build upon.Hire and grow the team - participate actively in recruiting and, within ~12 months, transition into leading the infrastructure domain.Ship constantly - operate as a peer to the founders; work fast and get things to production regularly.What We're Looking ForRequired3+ years of experience at a high-growth startup in fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments.Proven experience designing and implementing observability pipelines (logs, metrics, tracing) for production systems.Hands-on proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS.Strong command of TypeScript and comfort working with PostgreSQL.Track record of owning infrastructure end-to-end - not just operating it, but designing and evolving it.Comfortable operating as a founding-level engineer: high ownership, low ceremony, direct communication with leadership.Nice To HaveExperience building self-hostable / single-tenant deployment products.Background in durable execution frameworks or sandboxed code execution environments.Prior experience hiring and/or leading a small infrastructure or platform team.Background at top-tier engineering organizations (e.g., large cloud providers, developer tooling companies).Compensation & BenefitsSalary: $175,000 - $300,000 USD annuallyLeadership track with direct ownership and early-stage equityVisa sponsorship availableLocationThis role is on-site in San Francisco, CA, United States. 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