Founding Engineer

Job Overview

We’re building a European cloud platform on bare metal hardware, designing and operating the full stack including compute, Kubernetes, storage, and networking. As a Founding Engineer, you’ll join the core engineering team to shape the platform’s architecture, write Go and Rust code, and drive infrastructure from concept to production.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, tenant isolation
• Write production Go for control plane, reconcilers, and API services
• Work on distributed storage architecture and scaling (Ceph/RADOS)
• Work on network design for multi-tenant isolation and multi-region expansion
• Work on Kubernetes control plane internals and cluster lifecycle management
• Review and challenge existing builds, identify fragilities and scalability issues
• Mentor a strong engineer learning infrastructure operations
• Make architecture decisions that support growth
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents for idea to implementation and monitoring

Qualifications

• Experience at a cloud provider, hosting company, or large-scale infrastructure operation
• Built application-level infrastructure code (Go, Rust, gRPC, reconcilers, APIs)
• Delivered projects from 0 to N, including scaling and replacing solutions
• Designed systems for growth, multi-tenant, multi-region, high availability, and failure domains
• Communicated via docs, RFCs, or architecture decision records
• Been on-call and owned production
• Operated with agency and urgency
• Experience with distributed storage in production (Ceph)
• Network architecture at fabric level (EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, Anycast, multi-tenant design)
• Kubernetes internals: control plane, CNI, multi-tenancy
• Infrastructure software in Go or Rust: control planes, reconcilers, platform tooling
• Bare metal operations, PXE, hardware lifecycle, datacenter environments