6h ago

Founding Engineer

Austin, TX

$120k-$180k / year

full-timecybersecurity

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll own infrastructure, DevOps, and productionization for a bootstrapped startup bringing AI-powered digital forensics to law enforcement. You'll turn manual updates into automated delivery, manage multi-cloud infrastructure, and own CJIS compliance and SOC2. This is a rare chance to shape the tech foundation of a product that solves fraud, locates victims, and tracks exfiltration.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Own build and deployment pipeline, automating update delivery to thousands of customers
  • Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure, Anthropic, and OpenAI
  • Own security and compliance frameworks including CJIS and SOC2
  • Build CI/CD for integration tests with large forensic datasets

📋 Requirements

  • 3+ years experience managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
  • Expertise in DevOps tooling (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms)
  • Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC2 or CJIS
  • Ability to work across the full stack and ship 5-10x faster using AI tools

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with digital forensics or law enforcement technology
  • Background in building multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure
  • Familiarity with AI agent orchestration and LLM APIs

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Competitive base salary with profit sharing
  • 🚀 Early-stage equity and outsized responsibility
  • 🏠 Onsite in Austin with flexible hours
  • 📚 Continuous learning culture and AI-native tools

📨 Hiring Process

Initial screen, technical screen, paid take-home project, paid work trial, then offer.

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