Founding Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
Founding Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure at Credal.ai — New York, NY, US
- Company: Credal.ai
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 190000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re looking for a founding BE infrastructure engineer to work closely with our CTO, engineering team, and customers. What you’ll do:
Backend or even full-stack development of new platform features and data/SaaS integrations (TypeScript, React)
Own our core infrastructure, including: Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Helm Charts, vector databases, CI/CD (Argo/Flux)
Ensure we can run across cloud and cloud-prem environments: from federal government to Fortune 50 infrastructure
Stay as unattractive as possible to nation state actors: our AppSec, vuln management, pen testing and container & cloud security make our adversaries’ efforts as difficult, expensive and unpleasant as possible
Build out Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) and Multi-Single Tenant (MST) to support federal and regulated enterprise environments
Improve platform stability and reliability
Engage directly with customers and our GTM team to ensure we’re delivering for our customers
Continue raising our bar for engineering excellence
You’ll join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ from places like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google.
About you
You might be a great fit if you’re a fluent generalist in all things backend who can also contribute to full stack development and cloud & infrastructure. Who you are:
Experienced with production systems at scale - ideally in startups
Security-minded - all things cyber, AppSec, and cloud security are foundational to you
High-ownership - you own things (projects, outcomes, customer unlocks) from ambiguous start to clean finish
Thrives in fast-paced environments - sprint cycles, biasing towards action
Customer-focused - you care deeply about customers’ challenges and incorporating their feedback
Adaptable - able to flex across the broad range of software engineering as needed (infra, BE, ideally even full-stack)
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t perfectly match this description but believe you would be a good fit with our values and culture. We embrace driven people who may not fit the mold or check every box.
Benefits and work environment
Free team lunch & dinner
Housing subsidy for employees who live near the office.
High quality health coverage including HSA options
Vision, dental, life, disability coverage
Regular team activities & offsite events
Unlimited PTO
In-person at our big office in Dumbo with stocked kitchen and views of the bridge 🙂
Interview process
Intro conversation with CTO or COS
Virtual tech screen
Onsite to meet our engineering team and CEO
References
More about us
We accelerate the most complex, sophisticated operations of the most impactful institutions, while weaving security and governance into every part of our product. Our customers include the HHS, MongoDB, Comcast, Lattice, Wise, Checkr, and incident.io among others. Some highlights:
Cultural principles
Team of 12 with 8 engineers
7-figure ARR
No enterprise customer has ever churned, >100% NRR
Raised just over $10m to date
Product docs, case studies, blog, podcast