Founding Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Temper; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Top-tier SF office

M5 MacBook Pro & equipment

Full health coverage

1 Screen (20 inch)

Job summary

Temper is building an agentic integration platform for the real economy. You will own the infrastructure and platform layer end-to-end, working directly with Nick (CTO) to ship durable production-grade systems.

You’ll lead the domain within a year, shape engineering patterns, and help recruit a dedicated team. This is a true early-stage, in-person role in San Francisco with meaningful equity and top-tier benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in high-growth startup environments.
• Experience running Kubernetes in production.
• Ownership of infrastructure or platform end-to-end.
• Comfort coding with AI agents and deploying production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure and platform layer end-to-end, collaborating with the CTO.
• Define and uphold engineering patterns across infra teams.
• Help recruit and build the platform team from your network.
• Deliver durable, self-healing, observable production systems.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Tools

Bun

Effect-TS

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Lack of connectivity is the most fundamental problem in the physical economy.

The physical economy only works as a network of interconnected companies, but it still runs on systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Every time two companies need to exchange data, someone builds a custom integration by hand. Business analysts, integration engineers, QA. All manual. Every time. Google EDI if you haven't. It's wild.

A lot of companies have tried to fix this. Nobody has. We think AI agents are the way to finally connect the physical economy.

Temper is an agentic integration platform for the real economy. Specialized AI agents handle the full lifecycle: gathering requirements in plain English, generating integration code, testing it, deploying it, and keeping it alive in production. When something breaks, the agents fix it.

We have paying enterprise customers. Real integrations running in production right now. There's more demand than we can keep up with.

Seed-funded, with over $8M raised. Still an early team, under 10 of us.

These aren't chatbots or thin wrappers on an LLM. The agents do real work with real consequences in production systems.

Some of what you'd build:

• Agent orchestration across multiple specialized agents coordinating complex workflows
• Platform engineering: basically a mini Vercel for integration runtime with durable execution
• Self-healing systems that detect failures and recover autonomously in production
• A knowledge base of undocumented systems that gets smarter with every integration

Nobody has shipped this kind of platform at production scale yet, even in other verticals.

Grew up in his family's trucking business. Built the freight product at Hive, Europe's leading eCom logistics startup, from 0 to $M. Hardware-native engineer who taught himself to code.

Ran 100+ person warehouse operations at Amazon, then consulted on system integrations at KPMG. Built Hive's largest revenue line from zero.

• Nick (CTO)

  Built Lilith at 16, led an offensive security program for a nation-state, entrepreneur for 8 years. In eCom, he led the tech that scaled a company from 0 to $100M in 3 years.

Daniel and Heinrich built Hive from pre-seed to 400+ people. They've been living this problem for years.

You'll own the infrastructure and platform layer end-to-end, working directly with Nick (CTO).

Temper is two hard infrastructure problems stacked on each other: a mini cloud platform, basically a Vercel for integration runtime where every customer's code runs with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing. Plus an agent infrastructure that writes, tests, and deploys that code at scale in production. On top of both, full observability into everything integrations and agents are doing, shipped as a single-tenant, self-hostable product customers can run inside their own cloud.

That's your surface area.

You'll also set the engineering patterns every future infra hire builds on, help us recruit that team from your network, and grow into leading the domain within a year. This is a leadership track from day one.

Helpful, but not required TypeScript Bun Effect-TS PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS

You're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel, and you pick up new things fast.

• You've run Kubernetes in production. Operated it, scaled it, debugged it at 2am.
• You've owned infrastructure or a platform end-to-end: shipped it, scaled it, kept it alive.
• You've operated in fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments. 3+ years at a high-growth startup.
• You code with AI agents and lean into it, with enough taste to know what's worth shipping.
• You hold strong technical opinions and change them when the evidence says so.
• You move independently.
• You want to do the best work of your career.
• You want a true early-stage, in-person experience in San Francisco: fast-paced, high intensity.
• Meaningful equity
• A top-tier office in San Francisco
• Equipment for maximum productivity: M5 MacBook Pro & more
• Full health coverage
• 1 Screen 20 min

  Quick chat, mutual fit.

• 2 Deep dive 45 min

  Your career, what you've built, how you think.

• 3 Technical 60 min

  Design a system with us. No leetcode.

• 4 Paid work day

  A real task from our backlog, in person.

• 5 Offer

  We move fast. Expect under two weeks from first call to offer.

If you want to build agent infrastructure that actually runs in production, reach out.