Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week)
Compensation: $225,000 – $275,000 + equity
Visa Sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H-1B transfers), including O-1
Experience Level: 3–5 years
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

Our client is an early-stage, venture-backed AI startup building infrastructure for large-scale agent orchestration. Founded in 2024, the team is small (~10 people) and moving fast in one of the most competitive areas of AI. Engineers here operate as hands-on individual contributors with outsized ownership over the product.

About the Role

This is a hands-on IC role building and scaling the distributed systems that power large-scale agent orchestration. You'll own meaningful infrastructure end to end, working directly on the hard distributed-systems problems that sit at the core of the product. This is a builder seat, not a management track.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and scale distributed services that orchestrate very large numbers of AI agents processing high volumes of tokens in real time
• Solve parallelization challenges including race conditions, real-time streaming of agent outputs, and write-throughput optimization
• Design and deploy production infrastructure as a primary individual contributor
• Contribute across the stack, including frontend application work where needed

Tech stack: Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal

Requirements

• 3–5 years of fullstack product engineering experience (Go and/or React a plus)
• Hands-on IC track record of shipping products in production at a top-tier technology company
• A clear upward career trajectory — deliberate, ambitious moves toward progressively stronger companies
• Production experience deploying distributed services (caching, pub/sub, RPC, relational databases)
• Production frontend development with modern React tooling
• A growth-driven builder mentality with a track record of ambition and hustle
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to peers
• Able to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week

Nice to Haves

• CS degree or equivalent; non-target academic backgrounds are welcomed and valued
• Go experience in production environments
• Competitive programming or ICPC background

Why Join

• Outsized individual impact on a small, fast-moving engineering team
• Deep ownership of hard distributed-systems problems at the core of the product
• Early-stage equity upside in a rapidly growing area of AI

Details

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Work policy: Onsite, 5 days/week
• Compensation: $225,000 – $275,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfers), including O-1
• Employment type: Full-Time

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co. , the recruiting partner managing this search.