Founding Platform Engineer

Information and Technology
January 28, 2026
Full Time

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Job type

  • Full-time

Shift and schedule

  • On call

Full job description

We’re seed stage, well-funded, and in stealth. We’re hiring our first dedicated platform engineer.

This role is fully remote.

The Role

You will own production infrastructure, reliability, and security. Your job is to make the platform secure, scalable, and reliable as usage grows fast. Going zero to one excites you.

Key Areas of Ownership:

  • Platform Architecture: Design and operate a secure, resilient, multi-cloud platform
  • Reliability & Scale: Operate high-throughput distributed systems; define SLOs, capacity models, and cost controls
  • Hands-on Engineering: Write and maintain production code, tooling, and automation with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and correctness.
  • Deployments & Incidents: Ensure safe releases, fast rollbacks, strong observability, and effective incident response
  • Security & Compliance: Infrastructure ownership for SOC 2 and similar regimes (access controls, isolation, encryption, auditability)
  • Developer Velocity: Improve the local-to-prod experience to unlock engineering speed

Tech Stack

  • Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP, Azure
  • Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Helm
  • CI/CD & Operations: GitLab, GitOps-style deployment workflows
  • Data & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis
  • Observability & On-Call: Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty
  • Backend: Node.js / TypeScript

What We’re Looking for

  • 8+ years in platform / infra / SRE / DevOps
  • Has run large-scale distributed systems (high traffic, large data)
  • Proven backend engineering experience (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js) beyond IaC, with the ability to debug issues end to end (from application logic to networking).
  • Experience in early-stage startups (or founder background); comfortable with speed
  • Deep expertise in networking fundamentals
  • Experience in regulated or uptime-critical domains (finance, healthcare, logistics, etc.)
  • Strong async communication skills (Slack, written updates, design docs)
  • Fluent written and verbal English required for documentation, incident response, and technical and business presentations.
  • Bonus: active open-source contributor

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