Founding Infrastructure Engineer – AI Platform

C&D Talent Advisory; Hitchin; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

On-site + flexible

Office facilities

Team lunch

Specialty coffee

Job summary

C&D Talent Advisory is seeking a Founding Engineer for Infrastructure & Platform in London to build backend services and the underlying platform foundations. You’ll own API design, Terraform-based infrastructure, and automated deployment in a seed-stage enterprise AI risk infrastructure startup.

You will partner with leadership on technical direction, ensuring security, reliability, and multi-year enterprise deployments, with on-site work at King's Cross and some flexibility.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Significant infrastructure ownership in production environments.
• Production experience with Terraform.
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Experience with containerized production workloads.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure.
• Experience owning systems through deployment and production operations.
• Strong security fundamentals.
• Experience with IAM and access-control architecture.
• Experience with network segmentation and secrets management.
• Knowledge of compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and own backend services across the platform.
• Develop APIs, asynchronous workflows, and core data models.
• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure foundations.
• Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Design secure multi-tenant isolation across compute, data, and network layers.
• Own deployment pipelines and CI/CD infrastructure.
• Build and maintain observability systems.
• Establish and improve production on-call practices.
• Develop infrastructure for long-running AI agent workloads.
• Build infrastructure for large-scale document processing.
• Design secure execution environments for AI tools and agents.
• Automate compliance evidence collection.
• Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks.
• Develop internal tooling to enable fast, secure shipping.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure ownership

TypeScript/Node.js

CI/CD

Terraform

Cloud infrastructure

Security fundamentals

IAM / access-control

Tools

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

Azure

AKS

Postgres

Job description

C&D Talent Advisory is seeking a Founding Engineer for Infrastructure & Platform in London to build backend services and the underlying platform foundations. You’ll own API design, Terraform-based infrastructure, and automated deployment in a seed-stage enterprise AI risk infrastructure startup.

You will partner with leadership on technical direction, ensuring security, reliability, and multi-year enterprise deployments, with on-site work at King's Cross and some flexibility.