Senior/Staff Founding Software Engineer (Cloud ...

Referring a Candidate for a bounty? Please visit Refer a Dev to submit. Build the cloud and delivery infrastructure behind one of the most widely adopted open-source AI platforms shipping real products in production today. This is a rare opportunity to join early and own the cloud platform, CI/CD, and enterprise infrastructure that powers AI copilots and agents used by startups and Fortune 100 companies alike. The product already has 20k+ GitHub stars, tens of thousands of weekly installs, millions of copilot interactions, and double-digit month-over-month growth. It is monetizing at the enterprise level and sits at the center of how modern AI systems move from demos into production. Backed by $6.5M in funding led by a top-tier AI investor, the team is small, senior, and moving fast. The Role You'll join as a Senior / Staff Founding Software Engineer focused on Cloud Platform and DevOps, with full ownership of the enterprise-grade infrastructure that supports a rapidly growing AI developer platform. You'll build the cloud-native backend systems that complement a widely used open-source toolkit, balancing startup speed with enterprise-grade security, reliability, and scalability. What You'll Do - Design and build cloud architecture for an enterprise AI platform - Support hosted and self-hosted deployment models - Own CI/CD pipelines for production systems and open-source packages - Implement infrastructure as code for consistent deployments - Build monitoring, logging, and alerting for production - Establish security, backup, and disaster recovery best practices - Optimize cloud performance and cost as usage scales Must Have Experience - 3+ years owning cloud infrastructure for production systems - Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containers - Hands-on CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions or similar) - Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CDK, etc.) - AWS experience and cloud architecture knowledge - Working knowledge of TypeScript / JavaScript - High ownership mindset and comfort with ambiguity Nice to Have - Experience with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure) - Open-source contribution or maintenance experience - Experience with AI/ML or developer platforms - Observability and monitoring expertise Why This Role Stands Out - Build foundational AI infrastructure used by thousands of developers - Join early and shape architecture, tooling, and culture - Work with a senior, highly technical team - Competitive compensation with real early-stage equity - Help define a core layer of the modern AI stack We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Created: 2026-03-10