Backend Engineer

About Kernel

We’re building the developer platform that lets AI agents use applications, starting with browsers. Our edge is an infrastructure platform that’s extensible, observable, and built for scale from day one. Our platform handles the hard stuff: spinning up browsers quickly and efficiently at scale, providing great observability into their activity, and enabling both humans and AI agents to interact with them.

If you’re interested in building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications, we’d love to chat.

As Founding Backend Engineer at Kernel, you’ll architect and build the core systems that power our AI agent platform end-to-end. You’ll own critical developer-focused products from conception to production, working with bleeding edge tech that needs to be both reliable and low latency. You’ll also play a foundational role in how we build Kernel’s culture.

• Design, develop, and scale new our product suite of developer tools, CLIs, and APIs

• Set direction for critical technical surface areas, enabling us to stay ahead of rapid growth

• Shape Kernel’s hiring decisions and culture as we grow

• Experience building extensible APIs, SDKs, and databases designed for scale and high throughput

• >=1 year of experience at a company with