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Founding Platform Engineer

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: Stepscale
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-15
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 240000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role overview

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.
Requirements
  • 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.
Nice to have
  • Prior hands-on work on autoscaling systems, scheduler internals, or time-series infrastructure.
Benefits and work setup
  • 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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