Software Engineer - Platform (Technical Lead)
$165,000–$230,000 year
Remote · United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead the architecture and evolution of our core agent runtime platform, designing and building the agent runtime infrastructure (Firecracker, Rust, Go), defining security boundaries for running untrusted code, and driving scalable scheduling/orchestration systems. Own performance, isolation, and reliability at scale while guiding technical direction across the company; collaborate directly with the founder to push the platform from low-level runtime design to production reliability and SOC2/compliance commitments.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure
- Proficiency in Go and/or Rust (or willingness to learn quickly)
- Strong focus on security and reliability
- Ability to design and implement scheduling/orchestration systems (Kubernetes-level problems)
- Experience leading or owning SOC2/compliance initiatives in infra-heavy environments
- Ability to make high-stakes architectural decisions with incomplete information
- Experience taking systems from 0→1 or 1→scale
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