Job Details

This range is provided by fierlo. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

Founding Software Engineer (Open Source Infrastructure Tools)

Our client is building the future of infrastructure automation — and looking for a founding engineer to help lead the charge.

Building AI for Infrastructure.

This is not a DevOps, SRE, or platform role — this is a product-focused software engineering role, centered on building developer tools for the infrastructure layer.

We are looking for a passionate software engineer who loves to build great things!

They are on a mission to create an intelligent DevOps agent:

• Smart enough for developers to never worry about infrastructure.
• Secure and reliable enough for infrastructure engineers to trust it.

They have already made waves:

• Built a widely adopted open-source runner for IaC.
• Co-founded OpenTofu, the open MPL fork of Terraform.

You will join a team of three founders with past experience at Amazon, Fitbit, and Palantir. They recently raised their seed round from Initialized Capital and a dream lineup of devtools angels, including Olivier Pomel, David Cramer, and others.

About You

• You're excited to be the first engineering hire in a small, fast-moving team where you'll have real ownership across the stack.
• You bring 2–3+ years of industry experience, ideally in early-stage startups. You've shipped real products and know how to move fast without breaking things.
• You've used IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Kubernetes—not necessarily as a DevOps engineer, but you've been close to the metal.
• You're comfortable reasoning about distributed systems, and you enjoy building both delightful UIs and robust backends.
• You write clean, high-quality code quickly. We use TypeScript and Go today, that can change quickly, but we are tool-agnostic.
• You have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals and math.
• Experience with infrastructure tooling — AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Golang.
• Active contributor or advocate for open-source — we live and breathe it.
• You've worked on developer tools and love talking to users.

What You'll Work On

You'll lead development across their open-source products: backend services, frontend UIs, infrastructure, and CLIs. While their open-source tooling is the current focus, we expect the scope to evolve quickly as we build toward broader adoption.

Some problems you'll tackle:

• Should an open-source TACO have a UI? What kind, and for whom? We've built three versions — help us get it right.
• How should we manage Terraform state? Today we support external state (S3, GCS, Azure), but owning state unlocks powerful use cases around drift detection, dependency management, and more.
• We currently run on GitHub Actions for compute — should we expand to managed runners or integrate with other CI/CD platforms and Kubernetes?

Compensation

• 0.5% - 2.0% equity
• Health insurance
• Free lunch in the office