Careers

Build the infrastructure agents deserve.

Our founding team consists of former Netflix engineers building the observability data lake and agent runtime we always wished we had. Every role here is high leverage and high ownership.

Open roles

Founding Engineer – Frontend

San Francisco Bay AreaFull time

Founding engineer with 3-5+ years of experience and a keen eye for UI/UX. You'll own multiple layers of the Cardinal product and shape the experience developers and their agents have with our platform.

Responsibilities

Design and ship end-to-end UI/UX for engineers and the agents driving them.
Partner with leadership to define and shape the product roadmap.

Ideal candidate

Excited about the early-stage startup environment.
Versatile generalist, comfortable outside your comfort zone.
Passionate about user-focused products with an outstanding UX.
Proactive; you thrive on getting things done.
Comfortable making autonomous decisions with the right context.
Give and receive constructive feedback well.
Enthusiastic about open source and the developer community.
Excited about building AI-powered product experiences.

Our stack

UI in React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
Data collection in Go, being open-sourced.
Reactive / streaming data paradigms on the backend and query engine.
Heavy use of object storage and serverless.

Apply now

Founding Engineer – Backend

San Francisco Bay AreaFull time

Founding engineer with 3-5+ years of experience and an obsessive product mindset. You'll own multiple parts of the Cardinal product and infrastructure stack, from ingest to query engine.

Responsibilities

Build and ship product + infrastructure primarily in Go across multi-cloud environments.
Work closely with leadership to define and influence the engineering roadmap.

Ideal candidate

Action-oriented; you thrive on getting things done.
Versatile generalist, comfortable outside your comfort zone.
Excited about the early-stage startup environment.
Passionate about developer-focused products with an outstanding DX.
Comfortable making autonomous decisions with the right context.
Give and receive constructive feedback well.
Enjoy challenges (and challenging your manager).
Love OSS and working with the developer community.
Excited about building AI-powered product experiences.

Our stack

Data collection in Go, being open-sourced.
Reactive / streaming data paradigms on the backend and query engine.
Object storage + serverless everywhere.
UI in React / TypeScript.

Apply now

Founding GTM Leader

San Francisco Bay AreaFull time

Founding GTM leader to shape Cardinal's growth strategy and drive adoption of our observability data lake and agent runtime. You'll build and execute our market motion from the ground up.

Apply now

Don't see your role?

We're always interested in meeting exceptional engineers and operators. Send us a note and tell us what you'd want to build.

careers@cardinalhq.io