Founding Engineer

asobbi; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-team equity with real upside

Competitive seed-stage cash compensation

Direct influence on product and culture

Job summary

asobbi, a stealth AI startup, is seeking a founding engineer to design and build core systems for a deployment platform. You will work directly with a seasoned founder and play a key role in shaping the company's culture and tech stack.

Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience in production software, particularly in Rust or C++. The company offers significant equity and competitive compensation as part of a high-trust team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping and maintaining production software.
• Strong API design and systems fundamentals.
• Production proficiency in Rust or C++.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade distributed services.
• Deploy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Work with early customers to translate needs into features.

Skills

Rust or C++

API design

Systems fundamentals

Clear communication

Customer-facing ability

Job description

Seattle, SF Bay Area, or Remote (US)

The Role

We’re a stealth, seed-stage AI startup backed by top VCs. We’re looking for a founding engineer to own major parts of our platform and help shape our culture and tech stack from day one.

What We’re Building

A deployment platform that helps enterprises move AI from experimentation to production—fast, securely, and cost-effectively. Our system runs across public cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. No legacy code. No committees.

Why You

• Build the architecture from scratch with meaningful equity.
• Work directly with a founder who scaled a $100M business to multi-billion and took a company public.
• Enter at the exact moment enterprise AI infrastructure is being decided.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate production-grade distributed services.
• Deploy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Work with early customers to translate needs into features.
• Use AI-driven dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to multiply velocity.
• Set the engineering bar as we grow.

What You Bring

• 5+ years shipping and maintaining production software.
• Strong API design and systems fundamentals.
• Production proficiency in Rust or C++.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity in 0→1 environments.
• Clear communication and customer-facing ability.

What We Offer

• Founding-team equity with real upside.
• Competitive seed-stage cash comp.
• Direct influence on product, architecture, and culture.
• A fast, high-trust team of builders and a founder invested in your growth