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Founding Engineer - Core

Alien

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Hand-curated global remote job with direct application link

Technical Requirements

RustC++JavaGoKubernetesPostgreSQLS3AI Coding Agents

what you’ll do:

  • design and ship core pieces of our deployment engine

  • evolve our infra primitives and developer-facing APIs

  • work closely with customers and open-source community to win their workloads and fold learnings back into the product

  • write crisp docs

must have:

  • systems engineering

    • you've worked extensively in a systems language (Rust, C++, Java, Go, etc.)

    • you think in failure modes (timeouts, retries, idempotency, partial progress) and you design for recovery

    • you methodically work through problems until you've found the root cause

  • cloud engineering

    • cloud infra (s3, iam, networking, storage, postgres, kubernetes, quotas)

    • distributed systems

  • ai native

    • you know how to ai coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex to move faster without shipping bugs

  • typist - you can write well in English and explain complex ideas simply

  • human - you build trust and admit what you don’t know

nice to have:

  • multiple years of experience writing Rust

  • you've maintained or operated serious systems in production, at scale

  • additional domain expertise in:

    • security (multi-tenant systems, isolation, least privilege, sandboxing)

    • k8s internals + cloud sharp edges (gke/eks/aks, disks + networking, load balancers, observability)

Founding Engineer - Core
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