Software Engineer: Backend & Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team. You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just robust systems, but help shape the technical backbone of a category-defining company from day one.

🏢 About Vooma

Vooma is a company focused on building AI-powered agents and intelligent systems. We are seeking a dedicated engineer to join our founding team and help shape our technical infrastructure.

🎯 The Role

You'll be responsible for designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production. This includes deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production
• Deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements
• Managing infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines
• Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure system reliability
• Contributing to infrastructure security and best practices

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience deploying and productionizing ML or AI-heavy workloads
• Expertise in building secure, scalable systems on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Deep knowledge of backend systems, networking, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with infrastructure security principles and compliance (e.g., SOC2)
• The mindset of an owner: proactive, hands-on, and driven to solve problems end-to-end

🎁 Benefits

The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 20 employee. Competitive compensation, significant equity upside, and medical / dental / vision benefits are offered.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).