Recruiting from Scratch · 1 day ago
Founding Engineer (Backend/Infra/ML Engineer)
San Francisco, CA|Onsite
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
2+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a specialized talent firm dedicated to helping companies build exceptional teams. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to own and scale the company’s backend and infrastructure systems, focusing on building core systems for document intelligence and AI-driven workflows.
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Responsibilities
Architect, build, and scale core backend systems powering document intelligence and AI-driven workflows
Design and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in production
Own infrastructure across deployment, monitoring, reliability, and performance optimization
Take systems from research prototype → production → enterprise scale
Build and maintain both cloud and on-prem deployments for enterprise customers
Establish best practices for CI/CD, observability, debugging, and incident response
Collaborate closely with founders and AI researchers to productionize cutting-edge research
Help shape the technical roadmap and engineering culture from the ground up
Qualification
Required
2–5+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, DevOps, or ML engineering
Strong Python experience (required)
Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems
Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform or Pulumi)
Experience with microservices, parallel processing, queues, caching (e.g., Redis), and performance optimization
A strong ownership mindset and comfort working in a lean, high-velocity environment
Preferred
Experience with Rust or C++
Experience supporting ML, GPU-heavy, or LLM-based workloads (LLMOps / MLOps)
Background in AI infrastructure, data platforms, or applied research environments
Experience at high-growth, venture-backed startups or leading infrastructure teams
Strong academic background in Computer Science or related technical fields
Benefits
Equity: 0.1% – 1.0%
Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates
Compensated work trial as part of the interview process
Direct collaboration with founders and meaningful technical ownership
Clear growth trajectory with long-term leadership potential
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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