About the RoleThis is a core infrastructure role at a seed-stage graph database company building the memory and context layer for AI agents. You'll join a small, high-conviction engineering team owning the hardest parts of the stack - query execution, graph storage internals, and distributed systems - and make architecture decisions that shape the product for the next decade. It's a direct-impact position: your name will be on the design docs and the pull requests in the same week.
What You'll Do- Own and ship core infrastructure components including the query engine, graph storage layer, and distributed systems.
- Drive architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
- Contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the technical category.
- Participate in architecture reviews and make hard technical trade-offs with real production consequences.
- Help raise the technical ceiling and shape engineering culture as the team scales.
What We're Looking For- 3+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals - the kind built on first principles, not just frameworks.
- Proficiency in Rust or Go, or a demonstrated drive to go deep in systems-level languages.
- Hands-on experience designing and shipping distributed systems, databases, or storage infrastructure in production environments.
- Proven ability to own large, ambiguous problems without a defined playbook.
- Track record of shipping production systems that real customers depend on under load.
- Open source contributions in systems-level projects are a strong plus.
- Prior founding engineer or early-stage infrastructure experience is a plus.
Compensation & BenefitsSalary range:
$160,000 - $270,000 USD annually, plus meaningful equity. Additional benefits include a learning budget, flexible PTO, wellness programs, and a gear/software stipend.
Visa sponsorship is not available.LocationOn-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.
