Sycamore Forge turns hard business processes into working software. Sycamore Guard governs every AI system from request to runtime. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
Build and operate Kubernetes-based serving and sandbox platforms for agents, internal services, and customer applications. Develop infrastructure-as-code, Helm charts, provisioning services, admission controls, and operators that reconcile environments safely, along with the change controls, drift detection, release gates, and fail-safe rollout procedures around them. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5-12 years of software or infrastructure engineering experience. We will make exceptions for exceptional people in either direction
- Experience building production control-plane software, operators, platform services, or developer infrastructure, not only configuring vendor products
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and delivery systems, including state management, drift detection, reproducible builds, staged rollout, and rollback
- Evidence of owning consequential production systems through incidents, capacity changes, recovery exercises, and reliability improvements
- A security-minded approach to tenant isolation, credentials, access control, software supply chains, and customer data
- The ability to write maintainable production software and automated tests for infrastructure behavior
More about this role
Sycamore is building the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise. Our platform helps companies build, deploy, and orchestrate agentic apps that take on real operational work, with the security and control large organizations need.
We are a small, engineering-led team working directly with Fortune 500 enterprises. We have raised $65M from Coatue and Lightspeed, along with other investors and industry leaders.
This is software engineering for consequential distributed systems, not cloud administration: control-plane services and Kubernetes controllers, identity and network boundaries, tenant-isolated data, and failures that cross application, cluster, database, and customer-network layers. Infrastructure is the foundation beneath Product and Core AI, so an error here can affect every application and customer. The team covers three areas. They share an on-call rotation and a great many failures, so nobody works in only one.
The platform and control plane. Kubernetes-based serving, the sandboxes agents execute in, deployment and rollback, networking and identity, and the operators that reconcile all of it. This is where blast radius is decided.
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