Senior Software Engineer, Control Plane

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the control plane's data model, workflows, APIs, and authorization protocols.

• Design, construct, deploy, troubleshoot, and manage the platform in a production environment.

• Oversee provisioning, fulfillment, model installation, and billing processes across various systems.

• Develop identity, tenancy, and authorization mechanisms for both individuals and machines.

• Ensure that console, API, CLI, Terraform, and agent interfaces deliver a consistent platform experience.

• Integrate with GPU and network service providers, payment gateways, and identity management systems.

• Define and uphold contracts that pertain to infrastructure.

• Manage orders, quotes, billing, and the accuracy of usage data.

• Engage in on-call duties, reliability practices, and engineering standards.

• Oversee the programmatic platform surface, which includes scoped machine credentials, management APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and agent access via MCP.

• Shape public contracts, declarative state management, machine principals, and agent permissions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A backend engineer capable of overseeing a system from start to finish.

• Proven experience managing a backend system that extends beyond a single service.

• Proficiency in designing APIs utilized by external users.

• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL data modeling, including database-enforced rules and row-level security.

• Background in creating authentication and authorization systems for multi-tenant customers, including non-human entities.

• Experience in developing long-running operations that involve idempotency, retries, and handling partial failures.

• Experience adapting production schemas while under live traffic conditions.

• Practical Python experience in a production setting, covering testing, deployment, and debugging.

• Experience with on-call responsibilities for systems developed by the candidate themselves.

• Ability to debug issues that span both the service and its underlying infrastructure.

• Strongly preferred: experience in building control planes, orchestrators, developer platforms, infrastructure SaaS, Terraform providers, Kubernetes operators, CLIs, SDKs, OAuth authorization servers, MCP servers, scoped-credential systems, as well as billing or usage pipelines.

• Familiarity with computing, networking, or GPU infrastructure.

• Competence in working with SQL manually and interpreting query plans.

• Capability to work without exhaustive specifications across design, implementation, debugging, and operations.

• Eagerness to operate within robust standards and to challenge them constructively.

• Willingness to engage in production and on-call responsibilities.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity opportunities.

• Flexible remote and distributed work arrangements across various time zones.

• Employment or contract engagement options based on location.

• Direct access to the company founders.

• Involvement in technical decision-making processes.

• Shared accountability for production and on-call duties.

• A hiring process that includes direct conversations with prospective colleagues.