About the role
About Pluto
Pluto (YC W25) is building the financial infrastructure for superintelligence. Compute is the bottleneck of the AI economy, but it is extremely opaque, volatile, and difficult to finance. Pluto is the first exchange with a materially complete designation from the CFTC to make compute a liquid, tradable asset class.
We’re starting by building the exchange and clearing infrastructure for compute derivatives and enabling a new class of financial products on top of AI infrastructure.
This is a chance to build the defining financial asset class of AI from the ground-up.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems powering a regulated exchange and its surrounding infrastructure
- Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, and production reliability
- Work directly with founders and early customers to translate ambiguous requirements into robust systems
- Build for correctness, performance, and auditability in a high-stakes financial environment
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, system design discussions, and hands-on collaboration
- Contribute to core technical decisions across the stack and shape the long-term architecture
Qualifications
Required
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production
- Strong systems design skills (distributed systems, APIs, data modeling, reliability)
- Experience owning services end-to-end in a production environment
