About the role
Source: Paraform - https://www.paraform.com/share/temper/cmph4yja400000bkuqrbqvwe5
Compensation: $175,000-$275,000 + 0.4%-0.8% equity.
Location: San Francisco (Jackson Square) - on-site 5-6 days/week. Visa: O-1, TN and H1B transfer; no new H1B.
About this role
First infrastructure hire (3+ years at high-growth startups) to own the entire infrastructure layer of an agentic integration platform from the ground up, working directly with the CTO on the runtime, agent infrastructure, observability pipeline and self-hostable deployment powering mission-critical enterprise integrations. Sets the patterns future infra engineers build on, and helps recruit and eventually lead the team.
What you will be doing
* Own the infra and platform layer end-to-end: build a 'Vercel for integration runtime' with durable execution, sandboxed isolation and self-healing
* Build and scale the agent infrastructure powering coding agents that write, test and deploy integration code in production
* Design the observability layer giving enterprise customers full visibility into integrations and agents
* Architect and ship a single-tenant, self-hostable build so customers can run the platform in their own cloud
* Help hire and build the infrastructure team, growing into a leadership role
Tech stack
Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker, TypeScript
About Temper
Agentic integration platform (AI-native system integrator) for the real economy: AI agents gather requirements, generate, test, deploy and self-heal ERP integrations for manufacturing, warehousing, trucking and logistics. Paying enterprise customers including multi-billion-dollar logistics companies. ~7 people, founded 2023, $8.3M raised.
Requirements
* 2-10 years in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering; 3+ years at high-growth startups
* Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP, TypeScript
* Thrives in fast, ambiguous environments; ships to production constantly
* 5-6 days in office in San Francisco
* Work authorization: O-1, TN or H1B transfer OK; no new H1B