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Founding Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Airweave
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San Francisco, CA$120k - $160kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Founding engineer to own Airweave's data and infrastructure layer, building the distributed data pipelines, vector search, and orchestration stack that powers AI agents. Early-stage infrastructure work with architecture yet to be defined; heavy focus on reliability, scale, observability, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Design and scale distributed data pipelines that sync hundreds of millions of documents from dozens sources into advanced search indexes
  • Build and improve Temporal workflows for parallel sync orchestration: retries, backpressure, and failure recovery across workers
  • Own our Kubernetes deployments with Helm charts: autoscaling, and resource management for bursty search, sync and LLM workloads
  • Scale PostgreSQL for high-throughput; connection pooling, read replicas, partitioning (we ask a lot from this database)
  • Manage vector database (Vespa) infrastructure: sharding, replication, backup strategies for large-scale agentic search
  • Orchestrate and optimize LLM inference pipelines: batching, caching, provider failover
  • Build monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and custom instrumentation for cluster health
  • Infrastructure as code for the base with Terraform

Qualifications

  • You've built or operated data pipelines at scale: ETL, event processing, streaming, or sync infrastructure
  • You're comfortable with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure as code
  • You've scaled databases and understand the tradeoffs (pooling, replication, sharding)
  • You have experience with distributed systems: workflow orchestration, message queues, eventual consistency
  • You're interested in LLM infrastructure: embeddings, vector search, inference optimization
  • You like building reliable systems and have opinions about observability
  • You're drawn to early-stage environments where you own the whole problem

Skills

Required:Distributed data pipelinesTemporal workflowsKubernetesPostgreSQL performanceVespa / vector databasesLLM inference orchestrationMonitoring/observabilityTerraform

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Competitive salary ($120K–$160K) with meaningful equity (0.25%–1.00%)
  • Work in-person in San Francisco with a highly-skilled, technical team
  • Direct impact on architecture and infrastructure decisions from the first week
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Open-Source Tool That Lets Agents Search Any App

Airweave is an open-source tool that lets agents search any app. It connects to productivity tools, databases, or document stores and transforms their contents into searchable knowledge bases for agents.

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