About the role
Overview
Confident AI is building the infrastructure that makes AI trustworthy. We're an observability platform used by engineering teams who need to understand what their AI systems are actually doing. We have strong product-market fit and a growing base of customers deploying in production.
We're looking for a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and infrastructure that our platform runs on. Today we operate in the cloud. Soon, our largest customers will deploy us on-prem in environments we don't control — high-traffic, high-ingest workloads where we can't just hotfix in production. You'll be the person who makes sure we survive that transition and thrive on the other side.
This is a foundational hire. You'll design the systems that let an observability platform handle massive data volumes without breaking, build the deployment story for on-prem and hybrid environments, and set the infrastructure standards that the rest of engineering builds on. If you want to own the hardest scaling and reliability problems at an early-stage company, this is the role.
What you'll be doing
- Own the reliability and scalability of our platform. You'll design and operate infrastructure that handles high-throughput data ingestion at scale — the kind of load that observability platforms generate.
- Build our on-prem and hybrid deployment story from scratch. This means packaging the entire service stack — ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, application services — for customer environments, plus configuration management, upgrade paths, and operational runbooks for deployments where you have limited visibility and no ability to push quick fixes.
- Design and implement the observability, monitoring, and alerting for our own infrastructure — yes, the observability platform needs to observe itself.
