Founding Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Quick facts
- Pay
- $200K–$270K
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, New York
- Languages
- Chinese, Korean
- Experience
- 5–8 years
- Skills
- Kubernetes
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B, OPT
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
On-site (New York City, NY) · $200K–$270K · 1 opening
Looking for Chinese / Korean speakers!
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About the company
A profitable, Series A-funded cloud infrastructure platform that lets engineering teams run production-grade infrastructure on any major cloud provider without the usual complexity, cost, and lock-in.
The company has grown revenue significantly since 2022, is backed by a top-tier venture fund, and works closely with fast-growing, YC-backed engineering teams. The team is flat, high-ownership, and headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco.
The role: You'll build at every level of the cloud infrastructure stack, from production-grade software to the deepest debugging work, shelling into virtual machines and digging through logs to find root causes.
Work happens in two-week project cycles with real autonomy to propose and drive your own work, and you'll talk directly with customers via Slack rather than working through layers of product management.
This is a genuine founding seat: the company wants someone who has already been the earliest technical hire at a startup or two, not someone looking for their first taste of that kind of ownership.
What you'll do
- Write production-grade software that powers the platform across cloud infrastructure surfaces
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle, from architectural design through production deployment
- Debug at the deepest levels — shelling into virtual machines, digging through log files, and finding true root causes
- Read through open-source repositories to debug third-party dependencies when needed
- Collaborate with the team on anything touching customer infrastructure, giving meaningful, direct feedback
- Work in two-week project cycles with full autonomy to propose and drive your own work
- Talk directly with customers via Slack, bringing real product intuition to infrastructure decisions
What you must bring
- 5–8 years of experience building at startups, roughly the equivalent of two startups' worth of experience, with founding engineer or earliest-technical-hire roles preferred
- A track record of shipping products end-to-end — you can point to specific code you wrote and systems you personally owned in production
- Genuine excitement about infrastructure problems specifically, not infrastructure as a means to something else
- High agency, with real comfort operating without a defined playbook or process
- The ability to debug and reason through complex systems under real pressure
Nice to have
- Prior hands-on infrastructure experience with networking, Kubernetes, distributed systems, or cloud platforms
- Experience shipping products that scaled to meaningful traction or a real user base
- Experience taking a product or feature from zero to one, having built something genuinely novel
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid context-switching between technical and strategic work
Compensation & logistics
- $200K–$270K base salary plus competitive equity
- 30 days of PTO, plus 30 remote days per year
- Relocation covered
- On-site in New York City
- 1 opening
- Open to visa sponsorship (H-1B, O-1, OPT)
This isn't the right fit if
- Your infrastructure experience is exclusively from a large tech company, with no startup background
- You can't clearly articulate why infrastructure work specifically excites you
- You're a perfectionist who optimizes for elegance over actually shipping
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name MeeBoss in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B, OPT
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Software Developers · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $109,845 | ~15% |
| Level II | $137,717 | ~31% |
| Level III | $165,589 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $193,461 | ~61% |
This job pays $200,000–$270,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.