# Founding Software Engineer - Backend and Infrastructure

**Company:** [Unsiloed AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/unsiloed-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Pulumi, Redis, Distributed Systems, Microservices
**Posted:** 2025-12-31

> Founding engineer owns backend systems and infrastructure for document intelligence and VLM workflows, from R&D to production scale. Requires strong Python backend skills, distributed systems, and cloud/K8s expertise with full ownership mindset.

## Job Description

## What you Will Do
- Architect, build, and scale core backend systems powering document intelligence and VLM-based workflows
- Own production infrastructure end-to-end: deployments, monitoring, performance, reliability
- Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency services in real production environments
- Take systems from R&D → production → enterprise scale
- Build and maintain cloud and on-prem deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) for enterprise customers
- Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, debugging, and incident response
- Work closely with the founders and research team to turn research prototypes into production-grade, scalable systems

## What We are Looking For
This role is backend & infrastructure-heavy. You should have most of the following:
- Experience building and operating scaled production systems
- Strong backend engineering skills (**Python** required; **C++/Rust** is a major plus)
- Experience with distributed systems (microservices, parallel processing, queues, caches like **Redis**)
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (**AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**)
- Hands-on experience with **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **Helm**, and infrastructure-as-code (**Terraform** / **Pulumi**)
- An ownership mindset

**Nice to have:** Experience serving ML / VLM / GPU-heavy workloads

## Compensation
- **$150k – $300k**
- Equity: **0.1% – 1%**

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