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🏗️ Founding Infrastructure Engineer Remote

Popcorn · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Popcorn

The next-gen telco. A global phone plan with no roaming fees for $69/mo. Backed by South Park Commons.

About the role

You will own 100% of our infrastructure - from the AWS backend to the packet core of a live mobile network. This is not a "maintain the pipelines" DevOps job. It's rare surface area: databases, workers, and APIs on one side; a 50+ VM telco core network on the other; AI workloads in between. Every architectural decision will be yours to make, defend, and live with.

What they're looking for

  • Own our entire AWS estate end to end: backend services, databases, workers, queues, networking, IAM — architecture, reliability, and cost
  • Run and evolve a production core network, going deep into VM-level configs and learning the ins and outs of how a real mobile network works
  • Operate and optimize our AI/GPU machines
  • Build the automation layer: Terraform, observability, alerting, deployment pipelines: making the whole system reproducible, not artisanal
  • Own security across everything: network segmentation, secrets, access, and the elevated security bar that comes with running telco infrastructure
  • Debug the hard stuff: when something deep in the stack misbehaves, you're the one in the traces
More about this role

In a nutshell: Full-time remote role based in EU. Join as our first Infrastructure Engineer, owning the infrastructure powering our AI and telco stack.

  • Global connectivity with no roaming fees. We’re rebuilding telco from the ground up with a single global phone plan that just works.
  • AI at the core. Imagine a telco where AI screens calls, takes notes, or books restaurants for you. It’s what we’re building.
  • Momentum speaks volumes. Thousands of customers already rely on Popcorn, and we’re seeing extraordinary growth.
  • Raised millions in funding. Backed by investors behind leading consumer and AI companies such as Lovable and Revolut.
  • Experienced team with bold ambitions. We’ve previously built consumer products used by 100,000+ people. We’re just getting started here.

You will own 100% of our infrastructure - from the AWS backend to the packet core of a live mobile network. This is not a "maintain the pipelines" DevOps job. It's rare surface area: databases, workers, and APIs on one side; a 50+ VM telco core network on the other; AI workloads in between. Every architectural decision will be yours to make, defend, and live with.

You'll work directly with and learn from one...

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