Staff Engineer

Recruiting from Scratch
San Francisco, CA
Job Description
Role Overview

As a Staff Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in building the core agent infrastructure, scaling production systems, and shaping the technical architecture that will support the company's growth toward Series A. This is a high-leverage opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys ambiguity, first-principles problem solving, and building systems from the ground up.

What You Will Do

Design, build, and operate core infrastructure powering people-data and agent platforms, build production APIs supporting high-volume AI and data workloads, develop LLM-powered workflows and autonomous agent infrastructure, and more.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is a rare opportunity to join an extremely early-stage AI and data company and help build the infrastructure powering the emerging agent economy. You'll work on high-scale APIs, autonomous AI agents, web-scale data collection, knowledge graphs, distributed systems, and production infrastructure while operating directly alongside technical founders.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong track record of shipping production software
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale production systems
  • Experience building distributed systems and high-throughput infrastructure
  • Experience owning complex technical projects end-to-end
  • Experience working with APIs and backend infrastructure
  • Experience building AI, LLM, or agent-powered systems preferred
  • Experience working with large-scale data systems and pipelines
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure and Linux environments
  • Experience operating in early-stage or high-growth startups preferred
  • Strong architecture and system design experience
  • Experience working closely with technical founders or senior leadership preferred
  • Strong ownership mentality and demonstrated technical leadership
  • Comfortable operating independently with minimal structure
  • Strong first-principles problem-solving approach
  • Experience building systems from the ground up

Benefits

  • Base Salary: $250,000 – $300,000
  • Competitive Equity Package
  • Opportunity to join an extremely early-stage technical organization
  • Significant ownership over core infrastructure and technical architecture
  • Direct collaboration with CEO and CTO
  • Opportunity to shape the company's technical strategy
  • Opportunity to build large-scale AI agent infrastructure from the ground up
  • Exposure to LLMs, autonomous agents, data infrastructure, and knowledge graphs
  • High-impact engineering role with broad technical scope
  • Opportunity to help shape the engineering organization ahead of Series A
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