Founding Engineer - Go​/Rust + Data Plane

We are partnering with a well-funded stealth startup building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI agents. The company is building a platform at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud networking, security, and AI infrastructure, creating the networking and control layer that enables agents and services to communicate securely at scale.

As one of the company's earliest engineering hires, you will have significant influence over the architecture, technical direction, and engineering culture of the platform.

What You'll Work On:

• Design and build core infrastructure
• Distributed control/data planes for managing networking, identity, and policy across cloud environments
• Layer 7 networking and policy enforcement for agent-to-agent and agent-to-service communication
• High-performance proxies, gateways, and traffic management infrastructure
• Service identity, authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication
• Policy engines that determine how AI agents can communicate with services, tools, and other agents
• Multi-tenant networking and isolation architectures
• Kubernetes-native networking and control plane infrastructure
• Highly available, horizontally scalable distributed systems
• Observability and debugging infrastructure for complex distributed networking environments
• Cloud networking across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure

This is a highly hands-on engineering position. You will be expected to architect systems at a high level while remaining close to the code and building critical components of the platform.