Technical Co-Founder & CTO (Remote Germany)

WhyBrilliant; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Autonomy over the technical vision

Remote-first across Germany

Open-source community engagement

Job summary

WhyBrilliant is seeking a Technical Co-Founder/CTO to architect and lead the core technology for an AI infrastructure startup based in Germany. You will own the technical vision from day zero, guiding system design, production-grade delivery, and open-source collaboration.

You will work closely with the Founder, recruit and scale an engineering team, and drive a pragmatic, shipping-focused culture in a remote-first environment across Germany.

Qualifications

• Proven software engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, backend architectures, and APIs.
• Hands-on builder with a track record of shipping production-grade developer infrastructure from scratch.
• Pragmatic technologist who writes clean code daily and navigates early-stage ambiguity.
• Experienced with or deeply curious about AI agent frameworks, observability, and OpenTelemetry.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture, hands-on engineering, and system design from zero to production.
• Architect and build the core platform for AI agent runtime reliability, telemetry, and automated remediation.
• Design scalable distributed systems, developer-first APIs, and execution environments for production AI agents.
• Ship production code daily while driving technical strategy, infrastructure decisions, and security standards.
• Translate early customer feedback and production edge cases directly into architecture and product capabilities.
• Steer our open-source codebase and actively cultivate the developer community.
• Recruit, mentor, and scale the engineering team as company operations expand.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architectures

APIs

Hands-on engineering

OpenTelemetry

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

WhyBrilliant is seeking a Technical Co-Founder/CTO to architect and lead the core technology for an AI infrastructure startup based in Germany. You will own the technical vision from day zero, guiding system design, production-grade delivery, and open-source collaboration.

You will work closely with the Founder, recruit and scale an engineering team, and drive a pragmatic, shipping-focused culture in a remote-first environment across Germany.