Founding Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Airweave
Amsterdam
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 80,000 - 100,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Ownership","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Founding software engineer responsible for owning Airweave's data and infrastructure layer, building scalable distributed data pipelines, LLM inference infrastructure, and the observability stack. You’ll shape early architecture, manage Kubernetes deployments, and ensure reliable data flows at scale for AI agents, integrating with vector databases and ETL pipelines in a hands-on, war-room startup environment.

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Airweave
Airweave
8 months ago

Founding Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Founding software engineer responsible for owning Airweave's data and infrastructure layer, building scalable distributed data pipelines, LLM inference infrastructure, and the observability stack. You’ll shape early architecture, manage Kubernetes deployments, and ensure reliable data flows at scale for AI agents, integrating with vector databases and ETL pipelines in a hands-on, war-room startup environment.
Location: Amsterdam
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and scale distributed data pipelines that sync hundreds of millions of documents from dozens sources into advanced search indexes
  • •Build and improve Temporal workflows for parallel sync orchestration: retries, backpressure, and failure recovery across workers
  • •Own our Kubernetes deployments with Helm charts: autoscaling, and resource management for bursty search, sync and LLM workloads
  • •Scale PostgreSQL for high-throughput; connection pooling, read replicas, partitioning
  • •Manage vector database (Vespa) infrastructure: sharding, replication, backup strategies for large-scale agentic search

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 80,000 - 100,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Must-have experience building or operating data pipelines at scale (ETL, event processing, streaming, or sync infrastructure)
  • •Strong Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code skills
  • •Experience scaling databases (pooling, replication, sharding) and managing high-throughput systems
  • •Knowledge of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and eventual consistency
  • •Interest in LLM infrastructure, embeddings, vector search, and inference optimization
Experience:Distributed systemsData pipelinesSearch
Skills:OwnershipCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:KubernetesTerraformTemporalPrometheusGrafanaPostgreSQLVespaHelmGitBashRedisETLDistributed SystemsMicroservicesSearch

Eligibility

Visa:US citizenship/visa not required
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Airweave
Industry: Developer Tools
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