Founding Infrastructure Engineeer

Ambrook

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure systems
  • Proven ability to own complex infrastructure projects from conception to deployment
  • Strong systems thinking balancing operational needs with scalability
  • Experience in implementing access controls and security measures
  • Enthusiasm for enhancing family-run businesses' profitability and resilience
  • Comfortable with ambiguous technical challenges
  • Bonus: Background in fintech or agricultural technology; bonus: experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the infrastructure
  • Drive technical strategy impacting critical business operations
  • Lead infrastructure as code implementation and database migrations
  • Enable product engineers to build rapidly while ensuring data integrity
  • Shape long-term infrastructure strategy to support customer expansion
  • Design proactive monitoring solutions for high-traffic situations
  • Influence hiring decisions and engineering standards for infrastructure team.

Benefits

  • Work with a mission-driven company focused on family-run businesses
  • Be part of a Series A startup backed by top investors
  • Drive impactful technical decisions that shape the company's future
  • Opportunity to influence architectural developments
  • Collaborate with teams dedicated to innovation and resilience in agriculture.
Full Job Description
Ambrook's mission is to help family-run American businesses become more profitable and resilient.

From record-breaking droughts to rising input costs and unpredictable markets, operators across American agriculture and industry are navigating increasing pressure - much of it driven by a changing climate and economy. Many of the best long-term investments - like water-efficient irrigation or improved grazing rotations - support both the land and the bottom line. But even when the payoff is clear, these changes often require upfront capital and financial clarity that's hard to come by.

With fragmented records and outdated tools, business owners can't easily see what's working - let alone prove viability to a lender, partner, or the next generation.

Ambrook is rebuilding the financial infrastructure that independent operators rely on.

We replace paperwork and legacy systems with modern tools for accounting, banking, invoicing and spending - built for people who spend more time in the field than in the office. Our platform gives producers the financial clarity they need to make confident investments in their land, their operation, and their future.

Our customers are the backbone of the real economy - stewards of land, labor, and legacy. When they can invest in ways that make their businesses stronger and more durable, they become a force for generational resilience across America.

We're starting with farmers and ranchers across the country - helping them keep the family business in the family and make decisions that stand the test of time.

We're a Series A startup backed by top investors (Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Homebrew, Designer Fund, BoxGroup, and more) and are looking for early team members who are looking to untangle the knotted intersection between American industry, climate, and the economy.

Learn more about our mission and what it's like to work with us.
The opportunity

Ambrook is building a world-class team. We're proud of the platform we've built so far and as our Founding Infrastructure Engineer, you'll help drive our technical decisions and influence our product direction for years to come, with the goal of making family-run businesses more profitable and resilient.

We're looking for someone who we can count on to...

Own: The reliability, scalability, and security of infrastructure that powers financial operations for thousands of America's family-run businesses

Drive: Technical strategy for infrastructure decisions that directly impact our ability to serve businesses during critical periods like tax season.

Lead: Implementation of infrastructure as code, database migrations, and monitoring systems that enable our engineering team to deploy confidently.

Enable: Product engineers to build features rapidly while maintaining the operational excellence that farmers depend on for their financial data.

Within 1 month you'll...
  • Take ownership of Ambrook's infrastructure architecture and identify critical improvement opportunities for our scaling platform.
  • Drive implementation of infrastructure as code to replace manual configurations across our Google Cloud environment.
  • Lead analysis of our current monitoring and observability stack, proposing concrete improvements for our tax season readiness.
  • Partner with engineering teams to understand system dependencies and seasonal traffic patterns that impact our farmers' experience.
  • Establish yourself as the go-to expert for infrastructure decisions while building relationships across product and engineering teams.
Within 3 months you'll...
  • Own and execute our Firestore to PostgreSQL migration with zero downtime
  • Architect and implement separate deployment environments that enable confident releases during critical farming seasons.
  • Design monitoring solutions that proactively handle our 10x tax season traffic surges, preventing issues before they impact customers.
  • Lead security and IAM improvements across our platform, establishing security practices that scale with our team.
Within 6 months you'll...
  • Shape the long-term infrastructure strategy that supports our expansion from thousands to tens of thousands of customers without compromising reliability.
  • Shape architecture planning for AI agent infrastructure, positioning us to deploy intelligent financial insights at the edge.
  • Own the technical foundation that enables our engineering team to scale to 25+ engineers while maintaining deployment confidence.
  • Influence hiring decisions by defining infrastructure engineering standards and interviewing candidates who will join your growing team.
  • Establish yourself as the infrastructure thought leader at Ambrook, sharing insights about scaling agricultural fintech through Ambrook Research.
About you
  • 5-7 years building and scaling infrastructure systems, with experience making architectural decisions that directly impact business outcomes.
  • Proven track record of independently owning complex infrastructure projects from conception through production deployment.
  • Systems thinking that balances immediate operational needs with long-term scalability requirements.
  • Security mindset with experience implementing robust access controls and operational security practices.
  • Excited to build infrastructure that realizes our mission of making family-run businesses more profitable and resilient.
  • Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous technical challenges and driving them to elegant solutions.
  • Bonus: Background in fintech, agricultural technology, or mission-driven companies.
  • Bonus: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes, or similar cloud-native technologies.

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