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Founding Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
135 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Founding Platform Engineer
Concentrate AI
• You will own production infrastructure, reliability, and security. Your job is to make the platform secure, scalable, and reliable as usage grows fast. • Design and operate a secure, resilient, multi-cloud platform, making and defending architectural choices as the system scales • Operate high-throughput distributed systems; define SLOs, capacity models, and cost controls • Write and maintain production code, tooling, and automation with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and correctness. • Ensure safe releases, fast rollbacks, strong observability, and effective incident response • Infrastructure ownership for SOC 2 and similar regimes (access controls, isolation, encryption, auditability) • Improve the local-to-prod experience to unlock engineering speed
Job Requirements
- 8+ years in platform / infra / SRE / DevOps
- Has run large-scale distributed systems (high traffic, large data)
- Proven backend engineering experience (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js) beyond IaC, with the ability to debug issues end to end (from application logic to networking).
- Experience in early-stage startups (or founder background); comfortable with speed
- Comfortability debating decisions and tradeoffs
- Deep expertise in networking fundamentals
- Experience in regulated or uptime-critical domains (finance, healthcare, logistics, etc.)
- Strong async communication skills (Slack, written updates, design docs)
- Fluent written and verbal English required for documentation, incident response, and technical and business presentations.
- Bonus: active open-source contributor
Benefits
- Comp: Base + bonus + meaningful equity
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