Founding Infrastructure Engineer
About the role
We're hiring a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build and secure the platform foundations for an AI-enabled product used by real customers. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership over reliability, scalability, security, and developer velocity.
You'll join a small engineering team where speed matters, pragmatism wins, and infrastructure is treated as a core product.
What you'll do
You will take the lead on the systems that keep the product stable, fast, and safe as usage grows:
- Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end
- Design, operate, and continuously improve a production AWS environment with infrastructure-as-code, focusing on resilience, performance, and cost control.
- Enable multi-region and isolated environments
- Build patterns for deploying fully separated customer environments across multiple regions, including support for single-tenant setups when required.
- Build and evolve CI/CD workflows
- Develop streamlined pipelines that allow the team to ship frequently and safely using modern tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, containers, progressive deployments).
- Implement observability and reliability standards
- Set up strong monitoring and alerting across logs, metrics, and traces so issues are detected early and resolved quickly.
- Improve performance under demanding workloads
- Tune autoscaling, routing, load balancing, and runtime behaviour to meet latency and throughput expectations , especially under compute-heavy usage.
- Raise the bar on operational maturity
- Establish best practices for incident response, fault tolerance, deployment safety, and infrastructure hygiene.
- Partner with application engineers
- Work closely with product and engineering teammates to ensure the platform supports rapid iteration without sacrificing stability.
What you bring
As a founding infrastructure & security engineer, you've solved difficult technical problems and delivered systems that perform reliably in production , demonstrated through past roles, notable projects, or open-source contributions.
Must haves
- 5+ years owning cloud infrastructure in production environments (AWS preferred)
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
- A proven record of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Deep understanding of cloud networking, autoscaling, and load balancing
- Solid security fundamentals across IAM, network controls, and incident response practices
Preferred haves
- Experience with ECS or container orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with distributed worker / job systems (e.g., Celery, Sidekiq, Resque, SQS, etc.)
- Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry)
- Strong Python skills
Nice to haves
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production
- Background in offensive security, CTFs, or security research