Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems

logcat.ai; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Comprehensive medical insurance

Job summary

logcat.ai in Bengaluru is seeking a senior backend/ distributed-systems leader to own the ingestion, processing, and runtime for our AI investigation agents. You will shape architecture and tech selection, and oversee CI/CD and reliability across the platform.

This founding seat requires startup DNA, ownership, and the ability to ship across API, pipeline, infra, and sometimes UI. You will work directly with founders in a VC-backed environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend or distributed systems at product companies.
• Experience shipping the API, the pipeline, the infra, and sometimes the UI.
• AI-native: you build harnesses and evals, not just accept autocomplete.
• Startup DNA: ownership over lanes and speed over ceremony.
• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Build ingestion and processing for very large system-log artifacts, and the runtime our AI investigation agents run on.
• Own the infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable for customers: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD.
• Build the automation and agentic workflows that let a small team ship like a large one.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Full-stack capability

Startup experience

CLI AI tools

Tools

eBPF

Perfetto

ftrace

Job description

Own the core platform end to end: ingestion and processing of very large system-log artifacts, the runtime under our AI investigation agents, and the infrastructure that keeps it all reliable for customers. This is a founding seat: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD, and reliability are your calls, and you'll have a real vote in what we build and who we hire next.

We're not hiring for a traditional lane. We want someone who builds the automation, agentic workflows, and self-scaling systems that let a small team ship like a large one.

logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack. We build agentic systems for Linux and Android devices: we ingest the diagnostic artifacts a device emits (bugreports, logcat, dmesg, modem traces, ramdumps, perfetto, pcap, CAN) and help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack, grounded in their own BSP. Think Datadog and Cursor combined for the OS layer. A VC-backed startup with a small, senior team. You work directly with the founders.

The bar

• 8+ years building backend or distributed systems at product companies. You've personally owned a system under real load and can talk concretely about its failure modes.
• Full-stack capable: you'll ship the API, the pipeline, the infra, and sometimes the UI.
• AI-native: you build harnesses and evals, not just accept autocomplete.
• Startup DNA: you've worked at an early or high-growth startup, or genuinely want to now. Ownership over lanes, speed over ceremony, many hats.
• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.

What you'll do

• Build ingestion and processing for very large system-log artifacts, and the runtime our AI investigation agents run on.
• Own the infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable for customers: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD.
• Build the automation and agentic workflows that let a small team ship like a large one.

Bonus

• Observability, logging, or tracing systems.
• eBPF, Perfetto, ftrace.
• OS internals.
• Public OSS track record.

Compensation and benefits

• Top-of-market salary and founding equity.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.