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Founding Backend Engineer

Engineering · Full-time · Remote · Senior

Posted Oct 7, 2026

About the role

You'll be one of the first engineers at Kielo, designing the scheduling, routing and billing systems that match AI workloads to distributed GPU capacity around the world.

What you'll do

  • Design and build the core inference routing layer
  • Own reliability, observability and performance of backend services
  • Shape our engineering culture and hiring

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years building production backend systems
  • Deep experience with distributed systems
  • Strong TypeScript or Rust

Nice to have

  • Experience with GPU workloads or ML serving
  • Open-source contributions

Tech stack

TypeScriptRustPostgreSQLRedisDockerKubernetesAWSAI/LLMs

Compensation

$80k – $140k + equity

Benefits

Meaningful equity
Fully remote
Flexible hours
Hardware budget
Learning stipend

Think you'd be a great fit?