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Founding Software Engineer - Infrastructure

InsForge· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding role building an agent-native cloud infrastructure platform. High ownership across Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and distributed systems to provide reliable production-ready infrastructure for AI coding agents.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with the founders to design and build the compute runtime powering InsForge
  • Own major infrastructure systems from initial architecture through production
  • Build container scheduling, placement, autoscaling, and lifecycle management
  • Improve cold starts, provisioning speed, and deployment reliability
  • Design systems for both stateful and stateless workloads
  • Build networking primitives, including service discovery, load balancing, and private networking
  • Work deeply with Linux, containers, microVMs, and virtualization technologies
  • Optimize storage systems, snapshots, cloning, and persistent volumes
  • Improve platform observability, debugging, monitoring, and operational tooling
  • Write design documents and turn proposals into reliable production systems
  • Help shape the engineering culture, technical standards, and infrastructure roadmap as an early member of the team
  • Founding engineers who enjoy building infrastructure from first principles and ownership over technology and the company

Qualifications

  • A strong understanding of distributed systems
  • Experience building production infrastructure or platform software
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Docker, Firecracker, or other virtualization technologies
  • Familiarity with networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, DNS, and service discovery
  • Excellent written communication and system design skills
  • The ability to operate with high autonomy, make pragmatic technical decisions, and take systems from idea to production
  • A desire to work closely with the founders and help shape the product, architecture, and engineering organization

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsProduction infrastructureLinux internalsContainers / virtualizationNetworking fundamentalsSystem design / communication
Last updated Sep 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The agent-native AWS

InsForge is the agent-native AWS: cloud infrastructure that AI coding agents can understand, operate, and recover from end to end.

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