Founding Platform Engineer

Company Description

Stealth AI logistics startup founded by former Forto CTO ($2.1B valuation)

Job Description

You will build the critical infrastructure powering AI agents that automate sea and air freight operations for a $200B industry. As a founding hire, you'll design reliable systems for concurrency and failure, own the entire deployment pipeline, and select the architectural foundations that shape the product’s future from the ground up.

Location

Berlin, Germany

Why this role is remarkable

• Founding-level impact at an early-stage startup with proven founder-market fit and a team of high-caliber talent from ETH, TUM, and BCG X.
• High-stakes technical challenges building reliable distributed systems for a massive industry still operating on manual processes and spreadsheets.
• Direct influence over the tech stack, moving from pragmatic early tooling to robust, scalable infrastructure that supports real-world production loads.

What You Will Do

• Build and operate the runtime infrastructure for AI agents using Vercel, MongoDB, AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS), and workflow tools like Inngest or Temporal.
• Design for reliability and failure by implementing queuing, retries, backpressure, and idempotency to ensure agent workflows stay resilient under load.
• Own the end-to-end deployment pipeline, including CI/CD, preview environments, and developer experience tooling to accelerate engineering velocity.

The ideal candidate

• Has 4-8+ years of experience owning infrastructure end-to-end, ideally having scaled a startup from early-stage to production maturity.
• Demonstrates deep mastery of distributed systems principles, including concurrency, eventual consistency, and event-driven architectures.
• Prefers high-agency environments and possesses a strong automation mindset to eliminate toil while maintaining high observability standards using Datadog.