Founding Engineer

Company: Porter
Location: New York NY
Compensation: $200000 - $270000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B O-1 OPT

Porter is the cloud platform for modern tech companies: it lets engineering teams instantly create production-grade infrastructure on AWS Azure or GCP deploy application code and monitor and manage it without the usual complexity cost and lock-in.

Porter (Y Combinator S20) raised a $20M Series A led by FirstMark Capital is profitable has grown ARR 8x since 2022 and is headquartered in New York with an office in San Francisco.

Porter is hiring a Founding Engineer to build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack. This seat is for an engineer who has been a founding engineer at a startup or two has solved problems end to end in production and is genuinely excited about infrastructure. You will work in 2-week project cycles with full autonomy talk to customers directly and take on the hard infrastructure problems that define the product.

• Write production-grade software that powers the Porter platform across cloud infrastructure.
• Own the full development lifecycle from architecture to production deployment.
• Debug at the deepest levels: shell into VMs dig through logs and find root causes.
• Read open-source code to debug third-party dependencies.
• Propose and drive your own work in 2-week cycles.
• Support customers directly and bring product intuition to infrastructure decisions.

• 5-8 years building in startups ideally as a founding engineer or earliest technical hire
• A track record of shipping products end to end with production systems you can point to
• Genuine excitement about cloud infrastructure
• High agency without a defined playbook
• The ability to debug complex systems under pressure

• Hands-on infrastructure experience (networking Kubernetes distributed systems cloud platforms)
• Products that scaled to meaningful traction
• Zero-to-one product experience

30 days PTO 30 remote days per year and relocation covered.

REVENUE: 18% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $36K-$49K; 1 seat(s).

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Render Vercel HashiCorp Heroku (Salesforce) DigitalOcean Railway.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 5-8 in startups yrs; founding/early engineer; infra excitement; end-to-end prod ownership; visa: H-1B O-1 OPT; location: NYC.