Founding Systems 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 reinventing machine identity and access controls for the AI era.

Build Reliable, Pragmatic Systems: Build the key systems and product experiences that enable developers to build truly trusted AI systems by unlocking dynamic access controls for machine-to-machine communication with strong security and reliability guarantees.

Be Hands On: Take ownership of projects from start to finish. Work across our stack—deploying infrastructure, building core systems, and developing our ecosystem. Whether you're creating new systems from scratch or refining existing ones, you'll work with the team to elevate our technology and build the future of AI infrastructure everywhere you go.

Mentor, Learn & Grow: Help your teammates grow by sharing your experiences and leading through hands-on work—crafting code, shipping new components, and contributing through code review & design sessions. Learn from those around you and be challenged every day by your work in a positive learning-focused environment.

Shape Engineering Culture: Have a seat at the table to build an engineering culture that values collaboration, iterative delivery, and excellent technology by leading by example—recognizing that culture is what you do, not what you say.

Versatile Experience: 5+ years of building scalable, reliable distributed systems with experience 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 contribute through change and manage ambiguity, deliver consistently by balancing long-term vision and short-term needs, and most importantly, someone who is excited by being empowered with autonomy and the expectation to self-actualize.

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 build the best systems and bring everyone else along with you.

Growing Systems Expertise: An engineer with significant expertise in building and operating distributed systems who is excited to build and operate resilient, high-availability systems with pragmatic technology choices.

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 contributing to 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.

Experience building API & library design systems with great ergonomics that make it easy for developers to build trusted systems quickly and easily.

Experience with public key infrastructure, enterprise key management, or multi-tenant infrastructure. Excited about edge computing 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.