About the role
About us
We're a Y Combinator-backed startup building the AI infrastructure layer for the IT services industry: the platform IT providers use to deliver governed AI to the small businesses they manage, and to build and run AI agents for them on the same rails.
It's a genuine blue-ocean space, no incumbent has built this yet - while demand is already strong and validated, with small businesses paying thousands of dollars per month for AI delivered this way today.
The founder previously built an AI coding platform to 2M+ users. You'd join as the founding engineer at the exact moment the category is forming.
What you'll build
You'll be the first engineering hire, working directly with the founder and owning large parts of the platform architecture. The system has two tightly connected halves:
1. AI access & governance infrastructure (the gateway)
- A multi-tenant AI gateway: an Anthropic/OpenAI-compatible API layer that popular AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others) are pinned to via managed endpoint configuration
- Identity binding: every request tied to a real employee identity via Microsoft Entra ID (OIDC/SAML federation), with per-tenant isolation across hundreds of end-client organizations
- Usage metering, pooled credit management, and per-tenant billing
- Audit logging, policy enforcement, and sensitive-data controls at the request layer
- An endpoint agent that deploys and pins tool configurations on managed devices and detects drift
2. Agent runtime & builder infrastructure
- A tenant-isolated runtime where AI agents execute with scoped, vaulted credentials and inherit the permissions of the employee or role they act for
- A managed MCP (Model Context Protocol) server registry: sanctioned connectors to business systems, scoped per tenant
