Platform Engineer

About Underdog.io's Hiring Partner

Underdog.io is a modern recruitment platform. Our hiring partner is a pre-seed funded cybersecurity innovator (Q1 2025) on a mission to eradicate systemic risks in critical infrastructure. Modern software supply chains deploy identical binaries across fleets—creating a single point of failure for energy grids, space systems, and beyond. We break this threat by engineering intelligent variability into compilation, forcing attackers to rethink mass exploitation. Our technology transforms uniform deployments into uniquely resilient assets, radically increasing attack costs at scale.

To achieve this, we orchestrate tens of thousands of parallel compiler runs—demanding a bulletproof, scalable infrastructure backbone. We’re building this greenfield platform from scratch: distributed job scheduling, secure artifact distribution, and real-time telemetry. Join us to architect the engine powering unbreakable software.

Your Impact as a Platform Engineer

As a Founding Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll design the core systems executing millions of secure compiler jobs. You’ll own the orchestration platform that distributes, monitors, and scales isolated workloads across global clusters. Your work ensures resilience for infrastructure touching space, robotics, transportation, and edge networks.

Responsibilities

• Architect a secure, high-scale job orchestration system on Kubernetes for parallelized compiler workloads.
• Build container-native CI/CD pipelines deploying thousands of isolated tasks concurrently.
• Automate cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) via IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with emphasis on security and cost efficiency.
• Engineer core services: artifact caching, secrets management, logging, and metrics (Prometheus/Grafana/OTel).
• Implement autoscaling, fault tolerance, and observability for multi-tenant environments.
• Collaborate with compiler/security teams to harden systems against low-level threats.

Required Expertise

• 4+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or DevOps engineering.
• Kubernetes mastery: Cluster design, operators, and workload orchestration at scale.
• Distributed systems fluency: Concurrency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Coding proficiency: Golang, Python, or Rust.
• Cloud & observability: AWS/GCP, infrastructure-as-code, and full-stack monitoring.
• Startup DNA: Thrives in 0→1 environments; owns outcomes.

Nice-to-Haves

• Low-level security: Sandboxing (seccomp, AppArmor), namespaces, or secure enclaves.
• Experience with compiler toolchains, build systems (Bazel/Buck), or artifact signing.
• Passion for securing critical systems (robotics, energy, edge/IoT).

Why Join?

• Founder-level equity + competitive salary.
• Define our core: Shape infrastructure, culture, and technical vision from day one.
• Global scale: Impact critical infrastructure worldwide.
• Hybrid NYC with collaboration across U.S. and German engineering hubs.
• Mission-driven team: Work alongside seasoned cybersecurity and systems veterans.

Key Skills/Competency

• Kubernetes
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure
• DevOps
• Cybersecurity
• Orchestration
• Automation
• Go/Python/Rust
• Observability
• Scalability