Founding Engineer
$200k - $270kTransparent Search Group
Job Description
Job Description
Founding Engineer
Company: Confidential — cloud platform for modern tech companies
Location: New York, NY
Compensation: $200,000 - $270,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
The client is the cloud platform for modern tech companies: it lets engineering teams instantly create production-grade infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP, deploy application code, and monitor and manage it without the usual complexity, cost and lock-in.
The client (Y Combinator S20) raised a $20M Series A led by FirstMark Capital, is profitable, has grown ARR 8x since 2022, and is headquartered in New York with an office in San Francisco.
The RoleThe client is hiring a Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack. This seat is for an engineer who has been a founding engineer at a startup or two, has solved problems end to end in production, and is genuinely excited about infrastructure. You will work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy, talk to customers directly, and take on the hard infrastructure problems that define the product.
What You Will Do- Write production-grade software that powers the the client platform across cloud infrastructure.
- Own the full development lifecycle from architecture to production deployment.
- Debug at the deepest levels: shell into VMs, dig through logs and find root causes.
- Read open-source code to debug third-party dependencies.
- Propose and drive your own work in 2-week cycles.
- Support customers directly and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions.
- 5-8 years building in startups, ideally as a founding engineer or earliest technical hire
- A track record of shipping products end to end, with production systems you can point to
- Genuine excitement about cloud infrastructure
- High agency without a defined playbook
- The ability to debug complex systems under pressure
- Hands-on infrastructure experience (networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud platforms)
- Products that scaled to meaningful traction
- Zero-to-one product experience
30 days PTO, 30 remote days per year, and relocation covered.
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