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Founding Engineer

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$200,000 - 270,000/ year

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About the Role

As a Founding Engineer, you will take ownership of complex technical work across the infrastructure stack and help shape the product through direct customer collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Build production-grade software across cloud infrastructure surfaces.
  • Own technical work from architectural design through production deployment.
  • Investigate production issues by accessing virtual machines, analyzing logs, and tracing root causes.
  • Read and debug open-source repositories to understand third-party dependencies.
  • Collaborate with teammates on infrastructure-related customer needs and share product feedback.
  • Propose and drive work independently within two-week project cycles.
  • Talk with customers directly and incorporate their needs into infrastructure decisions.

Requirements

  • Five to eight years of experience building and shipping complex production software beyond CRUD applications.
  • Experience as a founding engineer at approximately two startups.
  • A strong background in distributed systems or infrastructure.
  • Experience owning end-to-end technical problems, from architecture through deployment.
  • Sound judgment debugging complex production systems under pressure, including system-level investigation using shell access and log analysis.
  • Ability to work independently in environments without established playbooks or processes.

Conditions

Base salary: $200,000 to $270,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

On-site, five days per week in New York City, New York.

Where you’d work

From the office, 4 or more days a week in the office

The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Office in New York City, United States

Your chances

Likely still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

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  • 3 red flags

Still hiring?

11 checks

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In its favour3

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence

Against it2

  • Listed for the 10th time after earlier listings of it closedModerate evidence
  • Posted 5 times at once for the same place: mass postings are often a pipeline, not one seatSlight evidence

How crowded?

8 checks

Low

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  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in New York City: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • In the office 4 or more days a week: most applicants want lessSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence

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Type
Full-time
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development

Location

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Office
Region
United States
Office
  • New York City, United States
Days in the office
4 or more days
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$200,000 - 270,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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