Founding Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$120–300K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed 2 days ago
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Rork seeks a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind its AI‑driven apps. The role involves accelerating deployments, reducing container costs, and strengthening millions of proxies. Candidates should enjoy working with diverse databases, caches, task queues, and orchestration systems while exploring innovative, faster, cheaper solutions.
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San Francisco, US / Remote, US + Europe・full-time・$120K - $300K・0.50% - 2.00%・US relocation help
Infrastructure engineers help build and scale the infrastructure supporting Rork and its apps. They'll be able to make deployments and jobs 10x faster, containers 10x cheaper, and millions of proxies more robust.
At Rork, we are pursuing full verticalization — going to the lowest levels of frameworks, databases, simulators, and dev environments to provide smoothest and fastest experience for future founders.
You will be a great fit if…
You like working with many databases, proxies, caches, task queues, and orchestration systems
You can find crazy ways to make things faster and cheaper, like running Expo dev server on Deno to make it consume only for CPU time.
You work 10+ hours a day, 6+ days a week
You love and inspired by Cloudflare, Bun, Deno, Neon, Clickhouse
You have interest in building an infra for RL model training
We encourage you to apply if you're exceptionally talented, even if you don't meet every requirement perfectly.
About Rork
Our mission is to solve millions of problems people meet every day. This is the first time in history where AI coding enables users to ship apps that solve their own problems. Rork is doing for utilities what YouTube did to TV.
Mobile is uniquely suited for this mission — it's the only platform that retains users well and is an incredible piece of hardware capable of everything. However, building apps has historically been very expensive and difficult, leaving countless problems unsolved.
We are a tiny 5 person team that ships fast. The founders (Daniel & Levan) are both generalists, technical, and full-stack.
Applying
To apply, please email your GitHub profile and/or CV along with a brief note about a project you're proud of to [email protected].
The interview process has three stages:
The first is a vibe call where we'll discuss your past projects and talk about coding.
The second interview is more technical and longer — it may include live coding.
The third stage is a paid work trial, which we prefer to make in-person — we'll cover all travel costs or fly to you if possible. It takes 2 weeks, but we can make faster decisions if we determine it's not the right fit. If this is not possible, we’ll do an online trial period.
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