Hirehangar
Founding Production Systems Engineer
California - San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Cloud PlatformsDesign SystemsSystems Engineering
About the role
- We are seeking a Founding Production Systems Engineer to join an early-stage AI video infrastructure startup.
- As one of the first engineering hires, you will keep the product's core systems reliable and scalable as usage grows - debugging ambiguous production issues, improving observability, and making sure the system runs smoothly and cost-effectively over time.
Responsibilities
- Build monitoring, alerting, and incident-response workflows suited for an early but serious production system
- Design systems that scale expensive workflows without hurting speed or predictability
- Build internal tools that simplify debugging and system operations for the team
- Partner with the broader team to align product needs with robust technical solutions
- Practical judgment about when to automate, simplify, or build minimal robust solutions
Requirements
- Experience operating production infrastructure or high-throughput backend systems
- Familiarity with queues, object storage, databases, and observability tooling
Nice to have
- Experience clearly communicating tradeoffs to non-infrastructure engineers
- Track record of owning outcomes independently, not just executing tickets
- Comfortable making infrastructure decisions with limited oversight
- 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
Benefits
- The company's first product turns prompts and documents into whiteboard-style explainer videos in seconds, working toward a bigger vision of making video generation as fast, cheap, and programmable as text is today.
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