Founding Engineer (Full Stack) - AI Systems / Developer Tools
Shape AI-driven developer infrastructure from scratch. Build systems to detect, diagnose, and resolve production issues. High-ownership role in a fast-growing, venture-backed startup.
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🚀 Founding Engineer (Full Stack) (AI Systems / Developer Tools)
📍 San Francisco, CA (On-site)
💼 Full-Time
💰 $250,000–$400,000 + Significant Equity
🤖 AI x Developer Infrastructure
A fast-growing, venture-backed AI startup is building systems that fundamentally change how engineering teams detect, diagnose, and resolve production issues.
Instead of adding more dashboards and alerts, the platform uses AI-driven systems to automatically identify root causes, reconstruct system behaviour across logs and telemetry, and help engineers resolve incidents faster — often before users are impacted.
The company is backed by leading investors and is already working with high-growth technology teams. They are now hiring a Founding Engineer to help shape both the product and technical direction from the ground up.
This is a high-ownership role in a deeply technical environment where speed, curiosity, and execution matter more than process or hierarchy.
🔹 Building AI systems that detect and diagnose production incidents
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🔹 Designing multi-agent reasoning workflows over complex system telemetry
🔹 Reconstructing system behaviour across logs, traces, deployments, and infrastructure events
🔹 Developing observability and instrumentation systems for modern software platforms
🔹 Creating automation that helps engineers identify root causes and fix issues faster
🔹 Solving entirely new technical problems with no predefined playbook
🔹 Contributing across product, infrastructure, and AI systems end-to-end
✅ Strong ability to operate independently in ambiguous, high-ownership environments
✅ Experience using AI to solve complex, real-world technical problems
✅ Excellent communication skills — able to simplify complex systems clearly
✅ Proven track record of building, shipping, or contributing to meaningful technical work
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✅ Strong bias toward action, curiosity, and hands-on problem solving
✅ Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate
- Prefer building and shipping over managing or coordinating teams
- Enjoy solving unclear, first-principles engineering problems
- Take initiative and proactively explore technical challenges
- Are highly curious and enjoy hands-on experimentation
- Operate well in fast-paced, high-autonomy environments
➕ Experience in developer tooling, observability, infrastructure, or production systems
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➕ Exposure to AI systems, agents, or distributed systems
➕ Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, or modern cloud environments
➕ Early-stage startup or founding engineer experience
➕ Strong independent technical projects, open-source work, or research contributions
💰 Competitive compensation: $250K–$400K
📈 Significant equity with early-stage upside
🚀 True ownership from day one in a founding engineering role
🤖 Opportunity to build category-defining AI infrastructure
👥 Work with a highly technical, builder-first team
🌍 Relocation support provided
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