Join two intense, high-output engineers building something novel: persistent cloud environments at scale with no real playbook.
- Write application code managing VM lifecycle, container updates, queues, observability, and security — scaling from ~500 to 2,000–3,000 environments in the coming weeks.
- Design and ship reliable abstractions around messaging queues, locks, background tasks, and service bus mechanics that product engineers build on.
- Evolve infrastructure-as-code patterns in Pulumi — defining standards others follow.
- Work deep in Linux systems — containers, networking, persistent storage, permissions, runtime debugging.
- Collaborate on a small, high-ownership team with weekly shipping cycles.
Seniority & Experience
- 6–12 years owning core infrastructure
Hard Skills
- Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK)
- Containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Deep cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP fine)
- 60% backend / 40% infrastructure balance — writes production code end to end
Soft Skills & Misc
- Clear English communication — do not submit if poor
- Deeply passionate about AI; AI-native/AI-forward company experience preferred
- High intensity, high drive, high ownership
- Based in North America or Western Europe
- Built/contributed to core infra (VMs, queues, containers) at an AI-native, Series A–C startup
- Currently writes production application code as a SWE — NOT a pure DevOps/SRE
- Experience managing per-customer isolated environments (VMs, containers, persistent cloud workloads) at scale
- Founder or Founding Engineer experience (strong plus)
Pay: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
