# Founding Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Airweave

- Company: Airweave (YC P25)
- What the company does: The open-source context retrieval layer for agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://airweave.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $160K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-11-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airweave/jobs/MwvkkF7-founding-software-engineer-data-infrastructure
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airweave-founding-software-engineer-data-infrastructure/

## About the role

We're looking for a founding engineer to own Airweave's data and infrastructure layer, the systems that make our distributed search and data pipelines scalable, reliable and observable.

## What they're looking for

- You've built or operated data pipelines at scale: ETL, event processing, streaming, or sync infrastructure
- You're comfortable with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure as code
- You've scaled databases and understand the tradeoffs (pooling, replication, sharding)
- You have experience with distributed systems: workflow orchestration, message queues, eventual consistency
- You're interested in LLM infrastructure: embeddings, vector search, inference optimization
- You like building reliable systems and have opinions about observability

Tags: Engineering