Founding Principal Engineer

Create the Future of Identity: Be at the forefront of how developers use and build applications with AI, enabling them to bring agents and AI-powered services to production by inventing the missing pieces to enable trustworthy AI.

Build Reliable, Pragmatic Systems: Shape key architectural decisions supported with clear design goals. Drive discovery work, from picking the right technologies to balancing trade-offs that deliver immediate value while ensuring future scalability.

Be Hands On: Take complete ownership of projects from start to finish. Work across our stack—deploying infrastructure, building core systems, and developing our SDK ecosystem. Whether you're creating new systems from scratch or refining existing ones, you'll elevate our technology and set the standard for the entire company everywhere you go.

Mentor & Grow Talent: Build the team through hands-on work—review code, lead design sessions, and foster a culture of iterative craftsmanship. Develop not just great software systems, but also great systems of people to create secure, scalable, and delightful products.

Shape Engineering Culture: Work side-by-side with founders to set the tone for how we build software, approach strategic decisions, and create an environment that values collaboration, iterative delivery, and solving meaningful problems with pragmatic design.

Versatile Experience: 10+ years of building scalable, reliable distributed systems with expertise using technologies like TypeScript, Go or any other systems programming language like Rust or Zig, Kubernetes, and Terraform on modern clouds such as GCP, Azure, and AWS.

Ownership Mindset: Someone who takes responsibility for the company's success, can lead through change and manage ambiguity, drives consistent and iterative progress by balancing long-term vision with delivering immediate value, and most importantly, someone who believes in enabling autonomy and self-actualization.

Builder & Product-Minded: A hands-on engineer passionate about crafting functional, beautiful products that developers love who prefers writing code to long documents but knows when to step back and do design work to bring others along to build the best systems.

Technical Leader with Security Expertise: An engineer with deep knowledge of security and distributed systems, with experience designing and operating resilient high-availability systems. They can drive key architectural decisions that are well communicated, fostering collaboration, empathy, and growth throughout their team.

Curious & Growth-Oriented: Continuously learning, challenging assumptions, and staying ahead of industry trends with a deep excitement about the future of AI & computing with a desire to bring those around them along for the ride.

Experience building scaled developer tools, infrastructure, and platform systems in a past role, such as observability systems, identity infrastructure, or data storage systems with high-availability requirements.

Built production public key infrastructure or have experience building cryptographic systems with understandable security models or have built enterprise key management for multi-tenant systems.

Developed global-scale multi-tenant infrastructure and are excited about the prospects of edge computing infrastructure companies like Cloudflare, Vercel, or Fly.io.

A passion for contributing to or creating open source software and ecosystems with an eye towards drawing the line between what should be open source and what must be kept closed source.

An appreciation for data-driven decision making with an addiction to instrumentation and metrics gathering to help shed light on ground truth.

A desire to automate their work as much as possible and have built agents or tools using LLMs in their personal life or in a past role with an excitement about the future of AI.