Founding Engineer - Platform/Infra/Devops
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026.
San Francisco, CA
"Would love someone with more experience working in and out of cloud infra, DevOps, secops, etc. Someone who wants ownership of the infra stack for the company"
What are we building?
Greybeam is building a way for companies orchestrate their SQL queries between data warehouses and external query engines, automatically selecting the best engine to either 10x performance or 10x query cost reduction (and often both!). Today, we’re routing queries between Snowflake and DuckDB, into the future we plan to include Trino, ClickHouse, StarRocks, etc.
Our vision is to build the destination for data processing-a compute platform that automatically assigns and provisions the best compute engine for each workload.
What’s it like working with us?
We’re fun, easy going, and we joke around a lot. But we also work a ton and expect you to put your passion, grit, and dedication into all the work that you’ll do. You are an early employee and everything you do has outsized impact. We’re building a highly technical product that’s paving the road into data 3.0, and we would love to work with people who are as passionate and driven about unlocking the multi-engine dream as we are.
We’ll laugh together, eat together, work together, and most important of all, we’ll have a ton of fun delivering a fricken amazing product to our customers together
Role Description
looking for a Founding Engineer to join our Platform and Infrastructure team to build out our cloud platform. As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the co-founders to design and develop a platform that supports multiple data storage and processing technologies, including Snowflake, DuckDB, Trino, and ClickHouse.
This is a full-time, in-person role in SF where you will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's technology from the ground up and take ownership of key technical milestones.
⭐ You are perfect for this role if you:
You are a platform engineer with experience in platform, infrastructure, and networking.
You may be working on:
- Service meshes like Istio and Envoy, with a strong grasp of traffic management and observability
- Implement applications in private/public cloud infrastructure and container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
- Run our infrastructure with (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block, object, etc.), networking (VPCs, proxies, CDNs, etc.), and administer high-availability (DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) clusters
- Build and support CI/CD platforms, automate repeatable infrastructure needs, environment buildout, software build and releases, create automated solutions, install and configure application software, and upkeep systems through patching, upgrades, monitoring, and maintenance support
- Design and build CI/CD pipeline with tools such as (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes toolsets, etc.)
- Scaling infrastructure on distributed systems.
Experiences that will help you excel
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes
- Experience working with (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) in a production environment
- Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code with (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience with configuration management systems like (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Experience with networking load balancers such as (Nginx, Netscaler, HAProxy, etc.)
- Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice
- When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
- Startups and being an early stage employee