05. The RoleYou'll own the infrastructure and platform layer end-to-end, working directly with Nick (CTO).
Temper is two hard infrastructure problems stacked on each other: a mini cloud platform, basically a Vercel for integration runtime where every customer's code runs with durable execution, sandboxed isolation, and self-healing. Plus an agent infrastructure that writes, tests, and deploys that code at scale in production. On top of both, full observability into everything integrations and agents are doing, shipped as a single-tenant, self-hostable product customers can run inside their own cloud.
That's your surface area.
You'll also set the engineering patterns every future infra hire builds on, help us recruit that team from your network, and grow into leading the domain within a year. This is a leadership track from day one.
Stack: TypeScript, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS
You're comfortable running multiple AI agents in parallel. You pick up new things fast.
06. You Might Be a Fit If- You've run Kubernetes in production. Operated it, scaled it, debugged it at 2am.
- You've owned infrastructure or a platform end-to-end: shipped it, scaled it, kept it alive.
- You've operated in fast, ambiguous, under-resourced environments -- 3+ years at a high-growth startup.
- You code with AI agents and lean into it, with enough taste to know what's worth shipping.
- You hold strong technical opinions and change them when the evidence says so.
- You move independently.
- You want to do the best work of your career.
- You want a true early-stage, in-person experience in San Francisco: fast-paced, high intensity.
07. What We Offer- Top-quartile compensation and meaningful equity
- Top-tier office in San Francisco
- M4 MacBook Pro and whatever else you need to move fast
- Full health coverage
08. The Process- Screen (20 min): Quick chat, mutual fit.
- Deep dive (45 min): Your career, what you've built, how you think.
- Technical (60 min): Design a system with us. No leetcode.
- Paid work day: A real task from our backlog, in person.
- Offer: Under two weeks from first call to offer.
