# Founding Engineer - Product (Staff) at Ardent

- Company: Ardent (YC P26)
- What the company does: Database sandboxes for Agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://tryardent.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ardent/jobs/4fjIRN4-founding-engineer-product-staff
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ardent-founding-engineer-product-staff/

## About the role

We're a small SF-based team looking to hire a strong founding product engineer. You'll work across the stack, from Postgres compute scaling to the workflows and UX our customers and their agents use every day, and you'll work directly with customers to shape the product from its earliest stages. This is a challenging role where you'll work across the stack on everything from low level go bugs to UX changes to deliver value to our customers.

## What they're looking for

- Strong fundamentals in computer science and architecture design
- Comfortable working across the stack and wearing many hats
- Deeply interested in what developer tools look like when the user is an agent, not a person
- Past experience shipping developer-facing products fast and a familiarity with go and Postgres
- Taste. You should be able to look at a flow and know it's wrong before a customer tells you
- Strong beliefs, loosely held

Tags: Engineering