Founding Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure

Founding Engineer

Greybeam is looking for a Founding Engineer to join our Platform and Infrastructure team to build out our cloud platform. As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the co-founders to design and develop a platform that supports multiple data storage and processing technologies, including Snowflake, DuckDB, Trino, and Click House. This is a full-time, in-person role in SF where you will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's technology from the ground up and take ownership of key technical milestones.

You are a platform engineer with experience in platform, infrastructure, and networking.

• Service meshes like Istio and Envoy, with a strong grasp of traffic management and observability
• Implement applications in private/public cloud infrastructure and container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Run our infrastructure with (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block, object, etc.), networking (VPCs, proxies, CDNs, etc.), and administer high-availability (DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) clusters
• Build and support CI/CD platforms, automate repeatable infrastructure needs, environment buildout, software build and releases, create automated solutions, install and configure application software, and upkeep systems through patching, upgrades, monitoring, and maintenance support
• Design and build CI/CD pipeline with tools such as (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, Kubernetes toolsets, etc.)
• Scaling infrastructure on distributed systems.

• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes
• Experience working with (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) in a production environment
• Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code with (Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience with configuration management systems like (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with networking load balancers such as (Nginx, Netscaler, HAProxy, etc.)
• Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice
• When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
• Startups and being an early stage employee

• Base salary of $160,000 to $200,000
• Equity 0.5% to 3%
• A compensation structure designed to provide a comfortable living wage while offering significant long-term upside through equity

Send applications to founders, no cover letter required, just 1 sentence telling us why we should hire you and your resume.