Founding Data Infrastructure Engineer: Scale & Observability

Airweave (YC X25); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Meaningful equity

Direct impact on architecture decisions

Job summary

Airweave (YC X25) in San Francisco is searching for a founding engineer to oversee its data and infrastructure layer. The role involves building and scaling robust data pipelines, managing Kubernetes deployments, and orchestrating LLM inference. Ideal candidates should have experience with distributed systems, database scaling, and observability. The position offers a competitive salary between $120K–$160K and equity options, alongside health benefits and a chance to impact architecture decisions from day one.

Qualifications

• Experience in building or operating data pipelines at scale.
• Comfortable with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience in scaling databases with tradeoff understanding.
• Familiar with distributed systems and workflow orchestration.
• Interest in LLM infrastructure and its optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale distributed data pipelines for search indexes.
• Build Temporal workflows for sync orchestration.
• Manage Kubernetes deployments and resource management.
• Scale PostgreSQL for high-throughput applications.
• Orchestrate LLM inference pipelines and monitoring.

Skills

ETL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Database Scaling

Distributed Systems

Observability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Vespa

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Airweave (YC X25) in San Francisco is searching for a founding engineer to oversee its data and infrastructure layer. The role involves building and scaling robust data pipelines, managing Kubernetes deployments, and orchestrating LLM inference. Ideal candidates should have experience with distributed systems, database scaling, and observability. The position offers a competitive salary between $120K–$160K and equity options, alongside health benefits and a chance to impact architecture decisions from day one.