Risely Ai

Founding Platform Eng Lead

San Francisco, USA

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$215kDetected 72 days ago

TypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLSnowflakeAWSGCPKubernetesPlatform EngineeringRESTData EngineeringLLMsCybersecuritySalesforceHRIS

About the role

We're hiring our Founding Platform Lead.
You'll own and build the core platform that delivers end-to-end deployments to large universities at record speeds with excellent quality.
What you'll own The platform that delivers in 4 weeks.
Most companies in our space take 12 months to deliver an implementation.

You know which patterns deserve to become primitives.
You know when to stop adding surface area and reinforce the platform underneath.
Experience 3-8 years of production engineering.
You have a position on shared versus isolated infrastructure and per-customer cost accounting.

the data layer against the customer's source systems, the agent configuration against their workflows, and the security and sync infrastructure each customer inherits.
Today, a complex deployment can take us 10-12 weeks to get done, down from 12 months.
Your job is to take it lower, and keep it there as the customer base grows from 10 to 40 to 400.
The deployment automation.
A pipeline of agents that does the work an engineering team would otherwise do manually for every customer.
The security platform.
Compliance, RBAC, encryption, audit trails, agent guardrails.
The connector and data engineering strategy.

$150-215K total cash (incl. variable) plus founding-level equity Risely is building the agentic operating system for universities.
The work, the pressure, and the equity are all founder-grade.

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