Founding Engineer

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About Porter

Deploy any code on any cloud

About the role

Series A funded, profitable, growing 8x in ARR since 2022, headquartered in New York with an SF office. Flat team, high ownership, working with some of the most exciting YC-backed companies. About the Role Porter is hiring a Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack. This is a seat for an engineer who has been a founding engineer at a startup or two before, has tackled problems end to end in production environments, and is genuinely excited about building at an infrastructure-specific company. The work spans production-grade software development, customer-facing problem solving, and ownership of complex technical surfaces inside the Porter platform. You will work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work, talk to customers directly via Slack, and collaborate closely with the team on the hard infrastructure problems that define the product. If you are excited about going deep on infrastructure and want a real founding seat at a profitable Series A company growing 8x year over year, this is the role. Write production-grade software that powers Porter's platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces Own end-to-end development lifecycle, from architectural design through production deployment Debug at the deepest levels: shell into virtual machines, dig through log files, find root causes Read through open-source repositories to debug third-party dependencies Collaborate with the team on anything that touches users' infrastructure and provide meaningful feedback Work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work Talk to customers directly via Slack and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions

Requirements

Must-have

• 5-8 years of building in startups (roughly two startups' worth of experience); founding engineer or earliest technical hire roles preferred
• Track record of shipping products end-to-end; can point to code you wrote and systems you owned in production
• Genuine excitement about infrastructure problems and the infrastructure space; you want to work on cloud infrastructure specifically
• High agency; comfortable operating without a defined playbook or process
• Ability to debug and reason through complex systems under pressure

Nice-to-have

• Prior hands-on infrastructure experience (networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud platforms)
• Shipped products that scaled to meaningful traction or user base
• Experience moving from zero to one on a product or feature; built something novel
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching between technical and strategic work

Benefits & perks

• 30 days PTO
• 30 days remote per year
• Relocation covered

Interview process

1. 1Application review
2. 2Intro
3. 3Applied algorithms and data structures
4. 4System design
5. 5Specialized coding discussion based on prior interview feedback
6. 6On-Site Work Trial
7. 7Offer Extended
8. 8Hired