Remote Founding Platform Engineer: Reliability & Scale

Embedding VC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Equity opportunities

High autonomy environment

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

A leading AI-native platform company is seeking a Founding Platform & Reliability Engineer to oversee the design and reliability of their entire infrastructure. This role demands a mix of hands-on implementation and strategic architecture decisions, ensuring system reliability and cost efficiency in a rapidly evolving environment. Key qualifications include over 5 years of experience in production systems and strong engineering skills in cloud-native environments. Enjoy competitive compensation and a hybrid work setup in the Bay Area.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems where reliability and scaling are core.
• Comfortable working across cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and define problems before solving them.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs across critical user journeys.
• Implement reliability patterns at external boundaries.
• Act as a senior technical voice influencing architecture and best practices.

Skills

Cloud-native experience (AWS or GCP)

Strong software engineering skills

Deep knowledge of observability practices

Ability to design resilient interactions

Can communicate tradeoffs to peers

Tools

GCP

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

React / Next.js

Job description

A leading AI-native platform company is seeking a Founding Platform & Reliability Engineer to oversee the design and reliability of their entire infrastructure. This role demands a mix of hands-on implementation and strategic architecture decisions, ensuring system reliability and cost efficiency in a rapidly evolving environment. Key qualifications include over 5 years of experience in production systems and strong engineering skills in cloud-native environments. Enjoy competitive compensation and a hybrid work setup in the Bay Area.