ngrok is developer infrastructure that routes and secures traffic to your apps, APIs, and AI models, wherever they run. Start on localhost, ship to prod. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
ngrok runs entirely on AWS. Engineers develop on remote EC2 environments that run a full Kubernetes cluster of the ngrok stack, closely mirroring production. The codebase is primarily Go and TypeScript. We use Postgres for persistence, Kafka for streaming, Protobuf for service boundaries, and Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and Buildkite to operate and ship reliably. React is used for user interfaces, and GitHub supports our development workflows and remembers everything. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
- You’ve built and operated distributed systems in AWS or other cloud environments
- You’re comfortable in a statically typed, compiled language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Java (with bonus points for Go)
- You think operational problems are engineering problems
- You care deeply about developer experience and scalable systems design
- You enjoy understanding how systems fail, recover, and evolve over time
More about this role
ngrok builds developer infrastructure to connect services and AI models, wherever they run.
Most developers know us as the way to put localhost on the internet. More than 15 million of them use ngrok, at companies like GitHub, Okta, HashiCorp, and Twilio. It's the same ngrok they've loved and leaned on for years, now with the power to run production traffic at scale.
Teams use ngrok to deliver APIs, connect to their customers' networks, manage device fleets, and route traffic between public and local AI models.
Across all of it, we hold ourselves to one standard: developers should be able to finish a whole job without becoming experts in every system it touches. We take on the complexity, make thoughtful choices by default, and keep developers in control of what matters to them.
- Our (unofficial) mascot is a shrimp. Yes, we make the puns.
- We have a designated Chief Emoji Officer, and the role is vital to our success.
- We like software that's serious and culture that's not.
- Our competitive advantage is that we're having fun.
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