Hirehangar

Hirehangar

Founding Backend Engineer

California - San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Cloud PlatformsDesign Systems

About the role

  • We are seeking a Founding Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer to join the earliest technical team at a fast-moving AI video infrastructure startup.
  • This is one of three founding engineering hires, focused on making the core product reliable and scalable as usage grows.
  • The ideal candidate likes owning production systems, debugging ambiguous failures, and making complex workflows feel predictable to users.

Responsibilities

  • Design systems that scale expensive workflows without making the product feel slow or unpredictable to users
  • Build deployment, monitoring, and incident-response workflows appropriate for an early but serious production system
  • Create internal tools that make debugging and operating the system easier for the whole team
  • Partner across the team to connect product requirements with robust technical systems

Requirements

  • Experience operating production infrastructure or high-throughput backend systems
  • Familiarity with queues, object storage, databases, observability tooling, deployment automation, and cost/performance tradeoffs
  • Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous reliability problems, even without a clear root cause

Nice to have

  • Experience communicating infrastructure tradeoffs to non-infrastructure engineers
  • History of taking ownership of outcomes, not just assigned tickets
  • Comfort making infrastructure decisions independently, without a fully-defined spec
  • Tools & Technology:
  • We connect top talent with vetted employers, competitive pay, and real growth opportunities.

Skills

  • Queueing systems and object storage
  • Databases and observability tooling
  • Cloud infrastructure and deployment automation
  • AI-assisted development tools
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