Matterhaul
Founding Infrastructure Engineer
$200K–$260K
San Francisco, CA (Onsite) · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; production backend and infrastructure experience, including meaningful 0→1 platform work.
About the job
Rebuild Matterhaul’s cloud infrastructure and core systems, set platform architecture, and create reliable data, processing, and deployment foundations for the engineering team.
What you'll do
- Build the AWS landing zone and Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure as code, networking, security, CI/CD, and operational tooling.
- Define service boundaries and make architecture choices for databases, data warehousing, search, caching, and processing pipelines.
- Improve observability, reliability, security, developer workflows, and production operations; write code and document architectural decisions.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building backend and infrastructure systems in production, including meaningful 0→1 platform work.
- Production Golang experience operating services used by real customers.
- Deep AWS experience and production Kubernetes experience, including infrastructure-as-code decisions.
- Distributed-systems judgment and data-infrastructure experience, including OLTP, ETL/ELT, and establishing a warehouse.
Nice to have
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience, including tenant isolation; familiarity with Effect.ts or willingness to learn it.
- Production experience with orchestration, streaming, CDC, AI/ML infrastructure, ReBAC, or voice, telephony, or document-processing pipelines.
Pay
$200,000 – $260,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, Snowflake, BigQuery
AI focus
Build infrastructure for Matterhaul’s AI-native supply-chain platform; preferred AI/ML infrastructure experience includes vector stores, GPU-backed inference, embedding pipelines, and prompt/response observability.
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