CrawlJobs Logo
Reducto Logo Reducto · IT - Software Development

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

United States, San Francisco 150000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 11, 2025
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

As the first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer at Reducto, you will influence every aspect of our infrastructure from the ground up. You will architect and scale resilient systems for AI and ML workloads, automate cloud infrastructure, and implement monitoring and incident response practices that set the standard for reliability. This role requires technical leadership, hands-on systems engineering, and strong collaboration with our founders and product teams as we build a company around reliability, rapid iteration, and high-impact product delivery.

Job Responsibility

  • Designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable infrastructure to support intensive AI/ML workloads and real-time model deployments
  • Implementing robust monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure system health, performance, and uptime across cloud and on-prem environments
  • Debugging, optimizing, and automating infrastructure for fast iteration and rapid deployment cycles, focusing on both reliability and developer velocity
  • Proactively identifying, investigating, and resolving incidents to minimize downtime and maintain world-class service levels for enterprise customers
  • Collaborating closely with engineers, ML specialists, and founders to shape product, infrastructure, and security strategies

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of hands-on experience in building or supporting production-grade infrastructure and reliability processes for high-throughput systems
  • Are comfortable with Python or similar languages
  • Exceptional at working across cloud platforms, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), networking, and storage technologies
  • Build your own tools on the fly to diagnose, experiment, and address reliability problems
  • Bring a quantitative, hands-on approach to system operations, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Are your own worst critic—have an extremely high bar for quality and always aim for robust solutions rather than quick fixes

Nice to have

  • Prior experience founding a company or building products/infrastructure in early-stage, high-growth environments
  • Excited about automating incident management processes with LLMs/AI
  • Driven, ambitious, and deeply care about both technical excellence and collaborative problem-solving
  • Keep up with the latest trends in cloud, observability, and SRE best practices
  • Passionate about open-source and have contributed tools or automation to reliability communities
  • Have built or optimized monitoring, incident response, or high-performance computing systems for demanding AI/ML, fintech, or enterprise clients

What we offer

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Free lunch daily at the office
  • Reimbursed Transportation
  • Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
  • Health and Wellness Budget up to $150/mo reimbursement
  • Parental Leave
Reducto - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

8 matching positions

Founding Software Engineer - Backend and Infrastructure

We are hiring a Founding Software Engineer in San Francisco. We are building a s...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
150000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
workatastartup.com Logo
YC Work at a Startup
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Experience building and operating scaled production systems
  • Strong backend engineering skills (Python required
  • C++/Rust is a major plus)
  • Experience with distributed systems (microservices, parallel processing, queues, caches like Redis)
  • Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / Pulumi)
  • An ownership mindset
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Architect, build, and scale core backend systems powering document intelligence and VLM-based workflows
  • Own production infrastructure end-to-end: deployments, monitoring, performance, reliability
  • Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency services in real production environments
  • Take systems from R&D → production → enterprise scale
  • Build and maintain cloud and on-prem deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for enterprise customers
  • Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, debugging, and incident response
  • Work closely with the founders and research team to turn research prototypes into production-grade, scalable systems
What we offer
What we offer
  • Equity: 0.1% – 1%
  • Visa sponsorship
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

Why This Role We're a YC + SoftBank-backed team that has launched a new venture...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
helpcare.ai Logo
Helpcare AI
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 7+ years of experience, including 5+ years shipping Node.js and React in production
  • Startup-tested: you've worked at a Seed or Series A company, made hard tradeoffs under pressure, and know what it takes to move fast with limited resources
  • Owned infrastructure end-to-end — CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, Docker deployments to container orchestration, static assets to S3, and AWS services including Lambda, ECS, CloudWatch, and RDS
  • Has shipped agentic or voice AI products in production — you have real scars from debugging non-deterministic, latency-sensitive systems at scale
  • Deeply familiar with LLM failure modes: hallucination, context limits, tool-calling reliability — and knows how to build guardrails that actually hold
  • Fluent in AI tooling across the full development lifecycle, from architecture and planning through to scaling
  • strong prompt engineer who knows how to get reliable output from models
  • Product-minded: you think in user outcomes, not tickets, and you push back when the spec doesn't make sense
  • Highly autonomous — you identify what matters, prioritize ruthlessly, and execute without hand-holding
  • Wired for speed without sacrificing quality: you ship fast and ship things users love, and you know the difference between acceptable debt and the kind that kills momentum
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design and ship agentic AI pipelines — multi-step, tool-using, self-correcting workflows that operate reliably at scale without human intervention
  • Build and iterate on real-time voice AI systems: low-latency speech pipelines, turn-taking logic, interruption handling, and voice-to-action flows
  • Own intelligent matching and discovery systems — the core AI that powers how we connect the right people at the right time
  • Make high-leverage architectural decisions: when to use RAG vs. fine-tuning, how to structure memory across agent sessions, how to instrument and debug non-deterministic systems
  • Be a genuine thought partner to the founders on product strategy — shape the roadmap, not just execute it
  • Set the engineering bar and build the culture as the team scales
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

We’re working with an early-stage, mission-led business in the financial wellbei...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , Manchester
Salary
Salary:
100000.00 GBP / Year
yourprimerecruitment.com Logo
YourPrime
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Strong background in software engineering, with experience building production applications
  • Experience developing mobile applications (React Native or similar)
  • Comfortable working across APIs, backend systems, and cloud environments
  • Experience operating in startup, scale-up, or high-ownership environments
  • Already using AI tools to improve development workflows
  • Strong interest in building AI-enabled product features
  • Curious about how LLMs, agents, and data can enhance user experience
  • Product-focused: you care about user outcomes, not just implementation
  • Commercially aware: you understand how engineering decisions impact business outcomes
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and moving quickly
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead development of the mobile application
  • Translate product vision into high-quality, scalable code
  • Own delivery end-to-end (architecture, build, testing, deployment)
  • Work closely with product and design to deliver a best-in-class user experience
  • Embed AI meaningfully into the product experience
  • Explore use cases across Personalisation, Behavioural insights, User engagement
  • Leverage modern AI tooling to accelerate development and improve output
  • Help define and evolve system architecture
  • Make key decisions across Mobile stack, Backend integrations, Data and AI infrastructure
  • Balance speed vs scalability in an early-stage environment
What we offer
What we offer
  • Founding-level opportunity with real ownership
  • Direct access to founders and strategic decision-making
  • Opportunity to build an AI-native product from the ground up
  • Clear pathway to Head of Engineering
  • Mission-led business tackling financial wellbeing and stress
  • Meaningful long-term upside through equity
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

This is a stealth-stage AI company taking on one of the messiest, most complex a...
Location
Location
Salary
Salary:
100000.00 - 150000.00 GBP / Year
linuxrecruit.co.uk Logo
Linux Recruit
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Strong in Python
  • experience with infrastructure or DevOps
  • experience with Kubernetes
  • curiosity
  • ability to pull things apart, improve them, and build from scratch
  • experience with early-stage teams or experimenting with new tools
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Build deep backend systems in Python that power intelligent workflows
  • build infrastructure that keeps systems running reliably
  • tackle scalability
  • design for messy real-world environments
  • work across infrastructure, product, and architecture
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

Interface is looking for generalist founding engineers (ml, data, full-stack) wh...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
Interface
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • make two-way door decisions quickly
  • fix things before being told they’re broken
  • be comfortable with our stack (tsx, py, docker, llms, yolo, tesseract, postgresql, aws, react native ...)
  • have built real things that people use
  • thrive in chaos
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • speak to users/customers about their experience / problems / needs
  • architect systems used daily by thousands of folks at $B+ companies
  • build agent-swarm data pipelines that autonomously audit thousands of documents
  • maintain infrastructure that scales
  • ship fast – because perfectionism kills progress
What we offer
What we offer
  • Competitive pay, strong equity, and early team influence
  • $3,000 referral bonus for successful hires
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

Valerie Health is the AI front office for independent provider groups. We are re...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco
Salary
Salary:
125000.00 - 275000.00 USD / Year
valeriehealth.com Logo
Valerie Health
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 1 - 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in computer science
  • Previous experience in big tech or startups is a plus
  • Demonstrated experience in building end-to-end products
  • User-Focus: Deep empathy for users, with the ability to translate their needs into product features and prioritize effectively
  • Work as Craft: Interest in producing elegant, polished, and high-performance work, finding pride and joy in the details
  • Growth Mindset: Eagerness to learn new approaches, seek feedback, and continually improve skill sets
  • Strong Communicator: Clear and succinct in both written and verbal communication, capable of adjusting style for different audiences and conveying technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
  • Self-Starter & Adaptable: Proactively own projects from inception to completion, identify challenges, and offer solutions, thriving in a dynamic work environment
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Collaborate closely with the rest of the team to shape product, business, and company direction. Help define and shape the culture of the company
  • Build a production-ready AI infrastructure, integrating and fine-tuning models across voice, text, and desktop agents. Build a reinforcement learning system with internal and external humans in the loop
  • Own end to end product surface areas that serve external and internal users. Build deeply empathetic and polished user experiences that raise the bar across the industry
  • Design, build and scale a HIPAA-compliant backend infrastructure that’s highly secure with strong availability and performance
What we offer
What we offer
  • Offers Equity
  • Competitive salary, equity and benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) and PTO
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Founding Engineer

Kerry Care is a US-based healthcare technology startup building AI-powered syste...
Location
Location
Argentina
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
silver.dev Logo
Silver.dev
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Strong TypeScript — you've built production systems with it
  • Deep Node.js backend experience
  • Solid React frontend experience
  • Production-grade real-time voice and telephony systems
  • SQL and database design — you know how to model data properly
  • Experience with TypeORM, Zod, or similar tools
  • Ability to reason about full-stack architecture
  • Experience building with or integrating LLMs and AI systems
  • Strong engineering fundamentals — clean code, maintainability, system design
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own the technical architecture — backend, frontend, infrastructure, and AI integration
  • Write code daily — build the critical systems yourself
  • Make stack and design decisions that will shape the product for years
  • Set the standard for code quality, testing, and engineering discipline
  • Integrate LLMs and AI workflows deeply into the platform
  • Work directly with founders on product direction and technical roadmap
  • Create clarity and structure in an environment that doesn't have perfect specs
  • Mentor and guide the other developers technically
What we offer
What we offer
  • Direct impact on senior care and patient outcomes
  • Technical ownership from day one — your decisions matter
  • Work closely with founders and shape company direction
  • Real exposure to US startup culture and execution
  • Small team, high responsibility, meaningful work
  • Ambitious, driven teammates who care about what we're building
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Software Engineer (Founding DevOps)

Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management. Our pla...
Location
Location
United States; Canada , New York; Toronto
Salary
Salary:
160000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
highbeam.com Logo
Highbeam
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure roles
  • Deep experience with GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, tracing, monitoring best practices)
  • Hands-on experience improving security in cloud platforms
  • Comfortable writing backend code
  • Familiar with Postgres tuning and optimization
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Own and improve our GCP infrastructure (Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Run, BigQuery, IAM)
  • Improve platform security, observability and reliability
  • Tackle tricky backend optimization and Postgres performance questions
  • Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines (faster builds, parallelized tests, incremental compilation)
  • Improve IntelliJ/Detekt setup and build a common dotfiles repo
  • Create and maintain our devtooling Dockerfiles
  • When capacity allows, contribute to the product backlog
What we offer
What we offer
  • Offers Equity
  • Generous PTO
  • Comprehensive health & benefits package
  • Stipends for lunch, commute, wellness, and purchasing customer products
  • Yearly offsite
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right