Founding Engineer - Infrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco
- Workplace
- On-site
- Compensation
- $175k – $300k + equity
- Visa
- Visa Sponsorship Available
About this role
Own the runtime and the self-hostable story.
Temper is an agentic integration platform for the real economy. You are our first infrastructure hire, working directly with Nick (CTO), on a leadership track. You start as the person who owns infra and grow into the person who leads it.
A mini cloud platform. Basically a Vercel for integration runtime: durable execution, sandboxed isolation, self-healing when things break.
The agent infrastructure. Coding agents that write, test, and deploy integration code, running at scale in production.
Observability and self-hosting. Full observability into every integration and agent, shipped as a single-tenant, self-hostable product.
3+ years at a high-growth startup. Fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments.
You have run Kubernetes in production. Operated it, scaled it, debugged it at 2am.
You have owned infrastructure or a platform end-to-end. Owned, not contributed to.
You code with AI agents and lean into it, but have the taste not to ship slop.
- Top-quartile pay (cash and equity)
- Founding-team equity: every decision is yours to shape
- A top-tier office in San Francisco
- Equipment for maximum productivity: M5 MacBook Pro and more
- Full health coverage, 401(k) match
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
early stage-fast growing company
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