Founding Platform Engineer
Job in
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for:
Stepscale
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-15
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Job Description & How to Apply Below
As a founding platform engineer, you will own the core runtime behind an AI-driven autoscaling product that ingests workload telemetry, runs tuning models, and writes optimized configurations back to customer autoscalers on AWS ECS and Kubernetes. This is a foundational role shaping the production infrastructure direction for years to come, with end-to-end ownership from API surface to operations.
Responsibilities- Build and operate the metrics ingestion pipeline that handles queue-depth, task-count, and request-rate streams from customer environments.
- Develop the applier service that pushes tuned configurations through native APIs (such as ECS Update Service, HPA, and KEDA CRDs) safely, with rollback support.
- Design multi-tenancy isolation and per-customer state stores to keep customer data cleanly separated.
- Instrument observability so that every automated scaling decision is explainable and auditable.
- Shape foundational infrastructure decisions that will influence how the platform scales over the next several years.
- Five or more years building production cloud infrastructure, ideally including large-scale experience with ECS or Kubernetes.
- Comfortable owning a system end-to-end, from public API surface to day-to-day operations.
- Strong written communication skills, suited to an async-first working style.
- A bias toward shipping working software over polishing architecture diagrams.
- Self-directed individual contributor mindset; able to drive work without a fixed gatekeeper.
- Prior hands-on work on autoscaling systems, scheduler internals, or time-series infrastructure.
- Fully remote role aligned with EU and Israel time zones.
- Async-first culture with no recurring status meetings.
- Competitive compensation plus meaningful equity.
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