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 About the Company 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 Role The 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. What You Bring • 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 Nice to Have • Hands-on infrastructure experience (networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud platforms) • Products that scaled to meaningful traction • Zero-to-one product experience Benefits 30 days PTO, 30 remote days per year, and relocation covered. Before you apply: get a free recruiter-readiness score for your resume at CareerStanding — about a minute, no signup, and your resume stays in your browser.