Founding Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Dev Tools

CodeRabbit; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CodeRabbit is seeking a founding Platform Engineer to own the compute, orchestration, and infrastructure layer powering the AI engine and product suite, across a multi-region Google Cloud Platform footprint. This is a 0-to-1 role with the responsibility to set technical direction and establish platform patterns the team will rely on.

You will make early architectural calls, ensuring the systems are correct and scalable as CodeRabbit grows, with a strong emphasis on ownership and high standards

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering with a strong bias toward building platforms, not just operating them.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Kubernetes: control plane, operators, scheduling, runtime debugging; Kubernetes internals a plus.
• Experience building and running large-scale distributed systems with trade-offs between consistency and availability.
• Strong cloud compute background on GCP or AWS; understanding of compute, networking, and storage primitives.
• Proficiency in Docker and container runtime internals: image layering, networking, security contexts, build optimization.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed Systems

Terraform

GCP/AWS

Docker

Node.js/TypeScript or Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Job description

CodeRabbit is seeking a founding Platform Engineer to own the compute, orchestration, and infrastructure layer powering the AI engine and product suite, across a multi-region Google Cloud Platform footprint. This is a 0-to-1 role with the responsibility to set technical direction and establish platform patterns the team will rely on.

You will make early architectural calls, ensuring the systems are correct and scalable as CodeRabbit grows, with a strong emphasis on ownership and high standards