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Founding Engineer

Asymptote· Engineering
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New York City$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding Engineer to build the core product and infrastructure behind Asymptote, owning architecture from backend systems to customer-facing features in a highly technical, product-oriented role.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build the backend systems powering Asymptote.
  • Build services for ingesting, processing, storing, querying, and serving high-volume agent telemetry.
  • Design data models for agents, users, tools, sessions, resources, and activity across heterogeneous environments.
  • Build APIs and platform primitives that power our product and integrations.
  • Design systems that remain fast, reliable, and simple as telemetry volume grows by orders of magnitude.
  • Build infrastructure that captures AI activity across endpoints, CI/CD, cloud, and agent runtimes.
  • Develop and improve Beacon, our open-source endpoint agent.
  • Integrate with rapidly evolving coding agents, AI harnesses, MCP servers, and developer tooling.
  • Build performant local systems that can run continuously without getting in the developer's way.
  • Design reliable pipelines for moving and normalizing telemetry from thousands of distributed environments.
  • Turn complex agent telemetry into simple, useful product experiences.
  • Build the systems behind agent inventory, activity timelines, search, investigations, policies, and analytics.
  • Work across backend and frontend when necessary to ship complete features.
  • Build product primitives that allow customers to understand what agents exist, what they're doing, and how they're interacting with enterprise systems.
  • Own features end-to-end from customer problem to production deployment.
  • Design systems that operate reliably across large, heterogeneous enterprise environments.
  • Solve hard problems around performance, reliability, concurrency, storage, querying, and distributed state.
  • Build deployment and integration infrastructure across endpoints, cloud environments, and enterprise systems.
  • Make architectural decisions that allow Asymptote to scale from early deployments to millions of agent events.
  • Reverse engineer and integrate with AI tools whose interfaces and architectures are changing constantly.
  • Prototype new approaches quickly, then turn the ones that work into production systems.
  • Debug problems across the stack, from local processes and operating systems to distributed backend infrastructure.
  • Build internal tooling that lets a small engineering team move extremely quickly.
  • Contribute infrastructure and tooling back to Beacon where appropriate.
  • Work directly with the founders to define Asymptote's architecture and technical roadmap.
  • Talk directly with customers and turn ambiguous problems into simple products.
  • Make foundational decisions around our stack, infrastructure, engineering practices, and developer experience.
  • Own major parts of the product from 0 → 1.
  • Help recruit and build the engineering team around you.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building production software, infrastructure, developer tools, data platforms, or distributed systems.
  • Exceptional software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience designing and operating backend systems in production.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, APIs, data modeling, and system architecture.
  • Ability to move comfortably between product engineering and infrastructure.
  • Experience taking complex, ambiguous technical problems from first principles through production.
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar systems quickly and work across abstraction layers.
  • Strong product instincts and care for the experience of the people using what you build.
  • High agency and excited to build foundational systems from the ground up.

Skills

Required:Telemetry infrastructure

Benefits

  • Bonus
Last updated Aug 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The Security Harness for AI Agents

Asymptote is the AI Detection & Response layer for every agent harness. Deploy in minutes, get complete runtime visibility, and implement policy controls across your environment.

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