Founding Infrastructure Engineer

Founding Infrastructure Engineer

modern relayChicago, IL

yesterday

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Design, build, and operate the components that provide storage, control-plane, and policy services across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will own the layer that turns Omnigraph from an engine into a platform: the control plane and every way it gets deployed. We're hiring an infrastructure engineer who has built control planes for data platforms: from design to implementation. Terraform, Kubernetes, and Git Ops are your first languages. Sovereignty is our core differentiator: customers run Omnigraph in our cloud, their cloud, or their data center, with full control of which model sees which data. Your job is to make that promise real, repeatable, and one click away. We're buildingA lakehouse-native graph engine with git-style workflows. Branch, commit, and merge typed graph data like code. Multi-modal, self-hosted, open source. Optimized for on-prem and hybrid context graphs, multi-agent research, and enterprise knowledge systems. We believe graphs are not just a database choice. They are the most efficient way to create and distribute knowledge — across people and agents. As fans of Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity, we think we're at the start of an explosion of explanatory knowledge, and we want to lead the way. Our mantra is SOVEREIGNTY. The engine is live and clients are deploying. What's missing is the platform layer that makes every deployment effortless. We invite you to build it with us. Our Style We've optimized the whole company to run on agents: Hermes, Claude Code, Devin — Slack wired for agent-driven development. You won't hand-crank infrastructure. You'll build it to run on rails: declarative, Git Ops-driven, agent-operable, cluster lifecycles as code. What you'll own Four systems to build and run: Control plane — the cluster control plane for Omnigraph: one-click cluster creation, prewarmed cluster pools, branch/query/graph visibility, multi-tenancy, usage and cost observability. Take it from working prototype to sellable product. Deployments — every shape a customer needs: hosted cloud, customer VPC, on-prem, hybrid. Cluster cloning for client sandboxes and pilots; the Docker/CI rails underneath; object-storage-first architecture (S3 and friends) end to end. Security & identity — supply-chain integrity and zero-trust posture; identity, SSO, and access policy; secrets and credential flows. Drive the design and development of policy-engine integration (Cedar) into cloud-native authorization environments. Enterprise buyers ask hard infosec questions — you'll have the answers and the architecture behind them. Dev Ops / Dev Ex — Git Ops workflows, IaC standards, CI/CD, environments. The internal platform that lets a small team (and its agents) ship like a big one.
Must have: Hands-on Kubernetes control-plane work — not just consuming clusters, building the machinery that manages them Terraform / IaC as a first language — you think in declarative infrastructure Built data-platform infrastructure from design to implementation — data stacks, data engineering context, and the ops reality behind them Git Ops as a default — infrastructure changes are code reviews, not tickets Security depth — supply-chain / zero-trust thinking, identity and SSO, a real sense for cyber Track record designing systems emphasizing reliability, correctness, and clear failure semantics Agent-native — you live in Claude Code / Codex / Open Code and orchestrate agents to scale your work High agency, high ownership — you don't wait, you ship
Nice to have: Object-storage internals (S3 semantics, conditional writes, S3-compatible backends) and columnar / lakehouse formats (Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, Delta, Lance)Rust, or willingness to work at the engine boundary Enterprise delivery experience: procurement, compliance, on-prem installs behind strict perimeters Time in OSS infra / dev-tools communities Who you'll work with Founder team from day one. Direct access to the founders and the engineering team for architecture, escalation, and roadmap. You set the infrastructure strategy; we give you the access and the budget to run it. Work
Equity: meaningful — this is one of the crucial early roles Title: Founding Infrastructure Engineer
Remote: remote-first, with monthly offsites

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