Founding Backend Engineer
mid$72K – $96K
via Ashby
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Job Title: Founding Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Location | On-Site — San Francisco, CA
Time Zone | PST
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Founding Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer to join the earliest technical team at a fast-moving AI video infrastructure startup. The company's first product turns prompts and documents into whiteboard-style explainer videos in seconds, with a broader vision to make video generation fast, cheap, and programmable enough for AI to use video anywhere it uses text today. This is one of three founding engineering hires, focused on making the core product reliable and scalable as usage grows.…
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