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
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.
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.
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Build and scale distributed services that orchestrate very large numbers of AI agents processing high volumes of tokens in real time
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Solve parallelization challenges including race conditions, real-time streaming of agent outputs, and write-throughput optimization
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Design and deploy production infrastructure as a primary individual contributor
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Contribute across the stack, including frontend application work where needed
Tech stack: Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal
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3–5 years of fullstack product engineering experience (Go and/or React a plus)
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Hands-on IC track record of shipping products in production at a top-tier technology company
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A clear upward career trajectory — deliberate, ambitious moves toward progressively stronger companies
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Production experience deploying distributed services (caching, pub/sub, RPC, relational databases)
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Production frontend development with modern React tooling
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A growth-driven builder mentality with a track record of ambition and hustle
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Ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to peers
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Able to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days/week
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CS degree or equivalent; non-target academic backgrounds are welcomed and valued
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Go experience in production environments
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Competitive programming or ICPC background
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Outsized individual impact on a small, fast-moving engineering team
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Deep ownership of hard distributed-systems problems at the core of the product
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Early-stage equity upside in a rapidly growing area of AI
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Location: San Francisco, CA
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Work policy: Onsite, 5 days/week
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Compensation: $225,000 – $275,000 + equity
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Visa sponsorship: Open to visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfers), including O-1
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Employment type: Full-Time
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search.
