Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

$180k - 225k per year + Medical, Equity Permanent On-site US

I'm working with an exceptionally well-funded early-stage startup that's building infrastructure for the next generation of AI-powered software development. Their platform gives engineering leaders visibility into how AI coding agents perform across the software development lifecycle—tracking AI-generated code from prompt through production to help teams measure quality, reliability, and developer productivity. Already seeing strong enterprise adoption, they're now looking to hire three Founding Engineers to help define both the product and the company.

The Opportunity

This is a genuine founding engineering role where you'll own major technical decisions from day one. You'll work across architecture, product development, infrastructure, and customer deployments while collaborating directly with the founding team and early enterprise customers. The engineering challenges are deeply technical, spanning developer tooling, distributed systems, observability, Git internals, and large-scale data processing.

What You'll Be Building

Core systems that track AI-generated code throughout the software development lifecycle

High-performance pipelines for ingesting, processing, and querying developer and AI agent activity

Integrations with leading AI coding assistants and developer platforms

Observability systems that measure agent performance, code quality, and engineering productivity

Infrastructure supporting secure, high-performance enterprise deployments

Developer tooling that operates transparently with virtually no workflow disruption

Open standards for AI code attribution and developer telemetry

You'll also work closely with design partners and enterprise customers, helping shape both the technical roadmap and the future direction of the platform.

What We're Looking For

You'll likely bring:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Experience working in high-growth startups (Seed through Series C)

Strong backend, infrastructure, distributed systems, or full-stack engineering experience

Experience building production systems where performance, scalability, and reliability matter

A high level of ownership and the ability to thrive with ambiguity

Strong product instincts and an interest in building tools that developers genuinely enjoy using

The engineering team primarily works with Rust and TypeScript, although experience in those languages isn't a prerequisite. Bonus experience includes:

Developer tools or developer infrastructure

Git internals

Observability or telemetry platforms

Distributed systems and high-scale backend infrastructure

Why This Role?

Founding engineer opportunity with meaningful equity

Solve genuinely difficult engineering problems at the forefront of AI software development

Build products used by engineering teams at leading enterprises

Work directly alongside experienced, repeat founders

Shape engineering culture, product direction, and technical architecture from the earliest stages

Join a small, highly technical team where every engineer has significant ownership

Compensation

Base Salary: $190,000–$220,000

Meaningful founding equity package

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

In-person collaboration in New York City

High-autonomy, fast-moving engineering culture