# Founding Engineer, Infrastructure

Cloudglue - Video Understanding Infrastructure Cloudglue is a Y Combinator-backed startup building developer APIs that turn video and audio into structured, searchable data. Think of us as the Stripe for video understanding - we handle the hard infrastructure (transcription, visual analysis, search, extraction) so developers can build on top of video without managing ML pipelines themselves. Our team has shipped large-scale systems at Snapchat and Amazon, with work presented at AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, and DEF CON. We process millions of minutes of video for customers building search, analytics, and automation products. We’re a small, technical team where engineers have real ownership and direct impact on the product. The Role We’re looking for a founding infrastructure engineer to design and scale the backend systems that power Cloudglue’s video processing pipelines, search and retrieval infrastructure, and async job orchestration. You’ll be one of the first engineers on the team - this is a high-ownership role where you’ll shape the architecture and the engineering culture. You’ll work on: Distributed video processing and async job orchestration Search and ret

- **Id**: 1245124
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cloudglue-founding-engineer-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T17:16:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:27:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3328
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Generative Video

## Company

- **Id**: 3779092
- **Name**: Cloudglue
- **Domain**: cloudglue.dev
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cloudglue>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Milvus** — Optional: yes
- **Weaviate** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T17:16:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 26
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.581
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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