Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Join two intense, high-output engineers building something novel: persistent cloud environments at scale with no real playbook. Write application code managing VM lifecycle, container updates, queues, observability, and security — scaling from ~500 to 2,000–3,000 environments in the coming weeks. Design and ship reliable abstractions around messaging queues, locks, background tasks, and service bus mechanics that product engineers build on. Evolve infrastructure-as-code patterns in Pulumi — defining standards others follow. Work deep in Linux systems — containers, networking, persistent storage, permissions, runtime debugging. Collaborate on a small, high-ownership team with weekly shipping cycles. Seniority & Experience 6–12 years owning core infrastructure Hard Skills Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK) Containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) Deep cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP fine) 60% backend / 40% infrastructure balance — writes production code end to end Soft Skills & Misc Clear English communication — do not submit if poor Deeply passionate about AI; AI-native/AI-forward company experience preferred High intensity, high drive, high ownership Based in North America or Western Europe Built/contributed to core infra (VMs, queues, containers) at an AI-native, Series A–C startup Currently writes production application code as a SWE — NOT a pure DevOps/SRE Experience managing per-customer isolated environments (VMs, containers, persistent cloud workloads) at scale Founder or Founding Engineer experience (strong plus) Pay: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00 per year Work Location: Remote