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Founding Systems Engineer role at an Australian startup building an infinite compute engine combining software and hardware to deliver local-feeling cloud VMs. Responsibilities include OS/virtualisation layer and security/encryption ownership, covering snapshots, contention management, streaming, state survival, concurrency, isolation, encryption, and instrumentation. Requires deep systems fundamentals in Linux, virtualisation, networking, distributed systems or security, strong debugging skills, and founder-level ownership comfort.

Key Highlights
Two founding Systems Engineer seats open – one focused on OS/virtualisation, the other on security/privacy/encryption
Startup building infinite compute engine: a native Mac app plus hardware delivering cloud VMs that feel local, launching end of Q1
Base salary self-set, around 2% founding equity with four-year vesting and one-year cliff
Key Responsibilities
Own the OS and virtualisation layer or security, privacy and encryption end to end
Implement spin-up mechanisms including snapshots, warm pools and copy-on-write images
Manage contention by packing guests onto hosts without performance degradation
Build streaming so remote machines feel local from network to pixels
Ensure state survives crashes, restarts and moves between hosts
Design concurrency handling for scheduling, cancellation and parallel agent execution
Enforce isolation with tenant boundaries and sandboxes for untrusted agent code
Implement encryption for keys, data at rest and in transit
Build instrumentation and telemetry to surface issues before users notice
Technical Skills Required
Virtualisation Linux Security
Benefits & Perks
Around 2% founding equity
No management track – ownership of problems, not people
No code tests – architecture chat with founder followed by deep dive with CTO
Relocation and visa sponsorship available
Salary: tell them what you need, plus super
Nice to Have
Firecracker
KVM
microVMs
Remote desktop tech

Job Description

Founding Systems Engineer

KIND ADVISORY PTY LTD – Sydney CBD NSW

Full time · Hybrid

Want to be on the team that solve infinite compute?

Be one of the first engineers at one of the most exciting companies in the world right now, with one of the biggest employee share pools of any Australian company – where you will build the systems that free people from the limits of a single computer.

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