# 🏗️ Founding Infrastructure Engineer Remote at Popcorn

- Company: Popcorn
- What the company does: The next-gen telco. A global phone plan with no roaming fees for $69/mo. Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://popcorn.space
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://popcorn.space/position/founding-infrastructure-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/popcorn-founding-infrastructure-engineer-remote/

## 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