Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems
Own the core platform end to end: ingestion and processing of very large system-log artifacts, the runtime under our AI investigation agents, and the infrastructure that keeps it all reliable for customers. This is a founding seat: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD, and reliability are your calls, and you'll have a real vote in what we build and who we hire next.
We're not hiring for a traditional lane. We want someone who builds the automation, agentic workflows, and self-scaling systems that let a small team ship like a large one.
logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack. We build agentic systems for Linux and Android devices: we ingest the diagnostic artifacts a device emits (bugreports, logcat, dmesg, modem traces, ramdumps, perfetto, pcap, CAN) and help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack, grounded in their own BSP. Think Datadog and Cursor combined for the OS layer. A VC-backed startup with a small, senior team. You work directly with the founders.
The bar
A quick, honest gut-check before you spend time on an application. If most of this sounds like you, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it's not you yet, no hard feelings, and please keep an eye on our other roles as they open.
- 018+ years building backend or distributed systems at product companies. You've personally owned a system under real load and can talk concretely about its failure modes.
- 02Full-stack capable: you'll ship the API, the pipeline, the infra, and sometimes the UI.
- 03AI-native: you build harnesses and evals, not just accept autocomplete.
- 04Startup DNA: you've worked at an early or high-growth startup, or genuinely want to now. Ownership over lanes, speed over ceremony, many hats.
- 05Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.
- Build ingestion and processing for very large system-log artifacts, and the runtime our AI investigation agents run on.
- Own the infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable for customers: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD.
- Build the automation and agentic workflows that let a small team ship like a large one.
- Observability, logging, or tracing systems.
- eBPF, Perfetto, ftrace.
- OS internals.
- Public OSS track record.
- Top-of-market salary and founding equity.
- Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.
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