# Founding Engineer at Petrarch

- Company: Petrarch (YC S26)
- What the company does: Internal industrial company data for frontier labs. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://petrarch.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120 to $170/hr (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/petrarch/jobs/qazXV6z-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/petrarch-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Experience: We care more about demonstrated ability & collaboration fit rather than years of experience Hours: Full-time, with flexibility when customer deployments require coordination

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production software
- Experience building modern full-stack applications. We care more about your ability to work across the stack than experience with any particular framework
- Strong backend development experience, including APIs, databases, distributed systems, and data processing
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and deploying production applications on AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
- Familiarity with containers, Docker, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and modern deployment practices
- Comfortable working with customer data and building robust ingestion and transformation systems

Tags: Engineering