Founding Engineer

Summary

Join Pluto, a company building cutting-edge developer tools for embedding web-using agents into applications, as a Founding Engineer. This is a remote, full-time position where you will play a key role in shaping the company's engineering culture, roadmap, and technical architecture. You will design and implement scalable infrastructure, build internal tooling, own CI/CD pipelines, and write production code in Go and Rust. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or platform engineering, deep experience with GCP, and proficiency in Go and/or Rust. This high-impact role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to work on challenging problems in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on infrastructure or platform engineering
• Deep experience with GCP and cloud-native tooling
• Proficiency in Go and/or Rust
• Strong grasp of DevOps principles: CI/CD, monitoring, security best practices
• A high degree of ownership — you're comfortable wearing multiple hats and taking projects from idea to production
• Excitement for LLMs, browser and computer automation, cryptography, distributed systems, or low-level performance work

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing scalable infrastructure on GCP (and other cloud platforms as needed)
• Building internal tooling to accelerate developer productivity
• Owning CI/CD pipelines, observability, and deployment workflows
• Writing production code in Go and Rust
• Collaborating across the engineering team to support systems written in multiple languages
• Helping shape product direction from a technical lens

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with browser and computer automation (chrome developer protocol, fingerprinting, anti-bot, accessibility features)
• Experience with ML and context engineering for LLMs (embedding, reranking, statistical approaches to data retrieval)
• Experience with advanced cryptography and trusted hardware (TEEs, zero knowledge proofs, multi-party computation)
• Familiarity with open-source developer tools or SDKs
• Prior experience in an early-stage startup environment

Benefits

• Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Internet and Gym Membership Reimbursement
• Remote-First Stipend (Your choice of technical setup and equipment)
• Conference Travel Stipend
• Quarterly team offsites
• Open Vacation Policy