Founding Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Write the software that runs modern cloud infrastructure, not the scripts that babysit it.

Key Talent Solutions partners with a profitable, fast-growing Series A company building the cloud platform that lets modern engineering teams deploy any code on any cloud, without the complexity or the lock-in. They are hiring a founding engineer who writes production software across the cloud-infrastructure stack and owns it end to end.

This is a software-engineering seat, not an operations one. You would be building the product that programmatically drives Kubernetes, cloud, and distributed systems, not operating or scripting someone else's infrastructure.

What you'd own

• Production software across the cloud-infra stack: Kubernetes, multi-cloud, distributed systems, control planes
• The full lifecycle, architecture to production deploy, on a flat team where engineers own the product, talk to customers, and drive their own work

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• Deep debugging across the whole stack, from your code down through open-source dependencies
• Two-week project cycles with real autonomy, founder-level ownership inside the company

What we're looking for

• Roughly 5 to 8 years building in startups, ideally a founding or earliest technical hire (exceptional engineers slightly under that are worth a conversation)
• A genuine love of infrastructure and developer tooling, the thing that actually gets you up in the morning

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• A track record shipping products end to end that you can point to, in production
• High agency, comfort with ambiguity, and a move-fast-over-perfect instinct

Compensation: $200K to $270K base plus competitive equity, with room above for an exceptional profile. Relocation to NYC covered.

Not a fit: infrastructure operators, DevOps or SRE who script but do not build software, big-tech-only infra backgrounds with no startup time, and perfectionists who optimize elegance over shipping.