Founding Platform Engineer

• Posted 2 days ago • Updated 48 minutes ago
Full Time
On-site
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Job Details

Skills

  • Leadership
  • DevOps
  • Cloud Computing
  • IaaS
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React.js
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Backup
  • Recovery
  • Incident Management
  • System On A Chip
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Startups
  • Customer Facing
  • Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Founding Infrastructure Engineer (AI Startup)

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)
Experience: 5+ years

Objective

Seeking a hands-on Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build and own the company's cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, deployment, and production reliability from day one. This is a startup leadership role requiring end-to-end ownership of AI infrastructure, customer deployments, and scalable cloud systems.

Must-Have Requirements
  • 5+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, backend, or platform engineering experience.
  • Prior startup experience building and operating production cloud environments.
  • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, and production operations.
  • Expertise with PostgreSQL, Redis, authentication/authorization, and distributed systems.
  • Proficient in Python and TypeScript; React/full-stack experience is a plus.
  • Experience improving system reliability, observability, monitoring, backup/recovery, and incident response.
  • Familiarity with SOC 2/security compliance and enterprise deployment architectures.
  • Experience deploying AI applications or AI agents into production.
  • Comfortable working directly with customers and owning technical decisions.
  • Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments with high ownership.

Preferred Traits
  • Strong problem solver who can balance infrastructure, backend engineering, and customer-facing work.
  • Comfortable using AI coding tools to accelerate development while understanding their limitations.
  • Self-starter with excellent prioritization and execution skills.
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