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Coverbase · 2 months ago

Founding Platform / Infra Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$170K/yr - $240K/yr

4+ years exp

Coverbase is a company focused on streamlining business-to-business assessments through modern AI techniques. They are seeking a Founding Platform / Infra Engineer to design, build, and evolve the systems and infrastructure that enhance the effectiveness of their engineering team.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ComplianceContact ManagementProcurementRisk ManagementSecurity

Responsibilities

Scale infrastructure using repeatable, environment-aware patterns for safe staging, preview, and production rollouts

Enhance reliability by defining service health metrics, improving alerting, and leading incident response + postmortems

Strengthen access hygiene by championing least-privilege defaults, secret rotation, and cleaner permission boundaries

Improve observability by building actionable dashboards and alarms, and creating light daily/weekly system health signals to keep the team oriented

Improve release safety through progressive delivery and automated post-deploy checks

Boost developer velocity by optimizing CI/CD workflows and documentation

Support communications by incorporating a lightweight status/incident update path customers can trust

Lead foundational projects as our analytics and batch workloads grow – setting standards for scalability and foundational developer resources

Qualification

PythonAWSGCPTerraform/PulumiCI/CD GitHub ActionsDockerECS/EKSCloudWatchSentryFullstoryIAMSecrets managementVulnerability remediationTypeScriptSystem observabilityDeveloper experienceIncident responseTeam collaboration

Required

4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including platform, infrastructure, or systems work

You have strong software engineering foundations — you're fluent in your dev environment, confident with git, write and review clean code, and debug systematically

You've built, deployed, and operated production systems end-to-end

Experience with: Languages: Python, TypeScript

Infra & IaC: AWS or GCP, Terraform/Pulumi, Docker, ECS/EKS

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Observability: CloudWatch, Sentry, Fullstory

Security & Ops: IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation

Pragmatic, curious, and comfortable in the ambiguity of an early-stage startup

Excited to build systems for other engineers, not just manage legacy infrastructure

Preferred

Experience working in a seed to Series C startup as the first Platform / Infra Engineer

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area and willing to go back into the office in a Hybrid model once the physical office opens

Experience working with founders and leadership team regularly

Benefits

Meaningful founding team equity.

Health insurance (100% employee / 80% dependents).

21 days PTO.

In-person gatherings within the U.S. (travel covered) every 3-5 months. We’ll give plenty of notice for it, and cover flights and accommodation. We expect you to attend!

401(k) with 4% matching.