Founding Infrastructure / Platform Engineer

Founding Infrastructure / Platform Engineer Chicago • Seattle Engineering • In office • Full-time Overview At Silkline, we have a bold mission — bring transparency and reliability to global supply chains. We are starting by building the modern operating system for procurement, helping businesses understand their supply networks and adapt to disruption. Silkline is a seed‑stage tech startup backed by top venture investors. This past year, we have grown our customer base 5×, and we are looking to grow rapidly. Join us on the ground floor as we build the platform that the rest of the company will stand on. The Founding Team Isaac Chambers is a 3× founder and started his career at Deloitte Consulting, focusing on supply chain & manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense sector. Brent Shulman is a full‑stack engineering leader and was previously an engineer at Palantir and Pave. While at Pave (where he joined as the 10th engineer), he founded, grew, and led the data integration team — scaling from 10 to thousands of customer connections. The Opportunity Our customer base has grown 5× in the last year. Customers such as Astranis, Castelion, Machina Labs, and many others now save dozens of hours per week on Silkline. Their expectations have grown with us, and part‑time infrastructure ownership won’t get us through the next chapter. We're hiring our first dedicated infrastructure engineer to own how Silkline runs in production. Our footprint includes Next.js, Hasura, Postgres, Trigger.dev — all running in an EKS cluster managed 100% via Pulumi IaC across AWS GovCloud, and it’s growing fast. Today, every engineer touches infra a little; nobody owns it. You will. You'll decide what we build, buy, and rip out, and what production discipline looks like here. Our customers operate in regulated manufacturing, and they care deeply about our data handling, compliance, and security. Silkline is already SOC 2 Type I, ITAR‑compliant, and on the uncommon path to becoming FedRAMP Moderate compliant. Compliance is a core product surface — it ships, it scales, and it unlocks deals. Your work is the next chapter: full FedRAMP authorization, and whatever our customers ask for next. You will report to the CTO and partner with the whole engineering team. No infra manager above you — you are the function. Looking back on your first 12 months at Silkline, you will have… Owned the architecture and operation of Silkline’s cloud platform on AWS, codified in Pulumi Built the data infrastructure practice — replication, backups, performance, and disaster recovery for Postgres Built the developer platform that lets a small team ship like a larger one — CI/CD, preview environments, deploy safety, codegen pipelines, local dev parity Matured the observability and on‑call practice on Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Posthog, and Sentry — real SLOs, useful dashboards, postmortems people actually read Maintained SOC 2 and ITAR, expanded our AWS GovCloud footprint, and led the company through FedRAMP authorization and the CMMC / NIST 800‑171 controls our customers ask for Made Trigger.dev a dependable backbone for syncs and integrations, with clear recovery paths when things break Made our AI infrastructure (Bedrock, Cerebras, Braintrust evals) reliable and observable as it becomes a bigger part of the product What you bring to Silkline 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE roles at companies that care about reliability, including some early‑stage experience where you wore many hats Deep Pulumi expertise — or deep Terraform / CDK and willingness to go all‑in on Pulumi. You think in IaC, ship reusable components, and can read a state file AWS depth — not “used EKS once” depth, but “debugged VPC routing at 2 am and have strong opinions on IAM” depth Postgres operations chops — you’ve tuned queries, run replication, migrated tens of millions of rows without downtime, and know what pg_stat_statements is for Production discipline — you’ve owned an on‑call rotation, written useful postmortems, and know the difference between a real SLO and a vanity SLO Builder mindset — you’d rather build the right abstraction than wire up another state‑management script. You ship code, not just configs. Comfort with ambiguity and early‑stage chaos — priorities shift, scope shifts, and you own the outcome anyway Bonus Took a company through FedRAMP (Moderate or High), CMMC, NIST 800‑171, or maintained SOC 2 Type II at scale AWS GovCloud (US) production experience Familiarity with handling export‑controlled (ITAR / EAR) or CUI data in cloud environments Multi‑tenant SaaS with per‑customer SSO, data isolation, or compliance scoping (we run per‑organization Auth0 tenants today) Trigger.dev, Inngest, Temporal, or other durable‑execution background‑job platforms Next.js production deployment experience (edge, ISR, preview environments) Our stack Pulumi · AWS (commercial + GovCloud) · RDS Postgres · Hasura · Apollo Client · Trigger.dev · Auth0 · Next.js · TypeScript · Datadog · OpenTelemetry · Sentry · GitHub Actions What this is not This is not a role for someone who wants to operate infra someone else built. We are hiring the person who builds it. If your job has been clicking around managed‑service consoles and filing tickets, this isn’t the right fit. If you treat reliability as paperwork rather than a product, this isn’t the right fit. Compensation The base pay range for this role is $180,000 – $240,000 per year. Compensation includes meaningful employee equity, plus medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Individuals of all genders, races, sexual orientations, nationalities, abilities, veteran statuses, and educational backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Currently, we do not sponsor applicants for work visas. Because this role touches ITAR‑controlled and CUI data, you must be a US citizen, lawful permanent resident, or otherwise qualify as a “US person” under ITAR (22 CFR 120.62). #J-18808-Ljbffr landa