Company context

Seed-stage, founder has shipped two profitable products. Building on Kubernetes + Temporal.

Role summary

Own the infra backbone for a stealth AI product. Direct work with the founder, six-week path to production pilot.

You will shape reliability and delivery from day one: CI/CD, observability, and production posture on a greenfield stack. The founder is technical—expect high-context pairing, fast decisions, and ownership of the path from prototype to a stable pilot. There is no legacy on-call debt yet; you help define what “done” looks like for infra here.

What makes this opportunity stand out

• NDA before names — founder discretion is the whole point.
• Greenfield platform; no legacy on-call yet.
• Replacement guarantee on private match placements.
  
  

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in platform, SRE, or backend with strong ownership in production systems.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes and with running stateful and async workloads in cloud environments.
• Hands-on with Go (or similar) for services, automation, and operational tooling.
• Comfort working US Eastern / Central overlap and collaborating closely with a small founding team under NDA.
  
  

Logistics & comp (indicative)

• Title:** Senior Platform Engineer — Senior (Full-time)
• Client:** Stealth AI startup
• **Style:** Private match
• Location:** Remote (Americas)
• **Model:** Remote
• Time zone / hours:** US Eastern / Central overlap
• Compensation (indicative—confirm in process):** $170k–$210k + equity
• Primary stack / tools:** Go, Kubernetes, Temporal, AWS, Postgres
  
  

This listing is not currently advertised with visa sponsorship. We still review strong cross-border or authorization candidates where it makes sense—confirm in your intro if this applies to you.