Founding Engineer – Backend

Founding Engineer
– Backend

📍 San Francisco Bay Area

🕓 Full Time

📍 San Francisco Bay Area

🕓 Full Time

We’re looking for a founding engineer with 3-5+ years of experience, and an obsessive product mindset that loves to get things done. This is a high-impact role where you’ll own multiple parts of the Cardinal product and infrastructure stack.

Your main job function:

  • Develop and deliver complete product and infrastructure solutions, ensuring exceptional user and developer experiences, primarily using Go in multi-cloud environments.

  • Work closely with leadership to define and influence our product and engineering roadmap.

Ideal Candidate Profile: 

  • You are action-oriented and thrive on getting things done.

  • You are a versatile generalist, able to adapt and contribute across various tasks, even outside your comfort zone.

  • You are excited about working in an early-stage startup environment.

  • You have a passion for creating developer-focused products with an outstanding developer experience.

  • You are comfortable making autonomous decisions when provided with the right context.

  • You are receptive to giving and receiving constructive feedback.

  • You enjoy a challenge or two, and like challenging others (mostly, your manager!). 

  • You like OSS and working with the developer community!

  • You want to build AI powered product experiences!

Our Tech Stack:

  • Most of our data collection is written in Go and will soon be getting open sourced. 

  • Our backend/query engine relies heavily on reactive/streaming data paradigms.

  • Other than that we live & breathe S3 + Serverless

  • The UI is written in React/TypeScript. 

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© 2025, Cardinal HQ, Inc. All rights reserved.

© 2025, Cardinal HQ, Inc. All rights reserved.

© 2025, Cardinal HQ, Inc. All rights reserved.