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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Since public launch, Emergent has reached <strong>$100M ARR in 8 months. 6M+ users across 190+ countries</strong> have built <strong>6.5M+ applications</strong> on Emergent. We've raised <strong>$100M+</strong>, backed by <strong>Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.</strong></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by <strong>repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni,</strong> and leaders from <strong>Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.</strong></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.</p>
<p><strong>What You'll Be Responsible For</strong></p>
<p><strong>Platform & Infrastructure</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Maintain stability of our platform consisting of distributed microservices closely interacting with Kubernetes and cloud providers (GCP, AWS)</li>
<li>Manage Kubernetes workloads with <strong>ArgoCD</strong> (GitOps) — deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot application syncs, resource trees, and rollouts</li>
<li>Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across clusters</li>
<li>Manage <strong>CDN and edge infrastructure</strong> (Cloudflare) for performance, caching, and traffic management</li>
<li>Automate infrastructure lifecycle operations and workflows</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Observability & Incident Response</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Own the observability stack: <strong>Grafana</strong> (dashboards, Loki logs, Prometheus metrics), <strong>New Relic</strong> (APM, golden metrics, transaction analysis)</li>
<li>Enhance monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across services</li>
<li>Participate in on-call rotation via <strong>PagerDuty</strong>, handle incident response, and perform root cause analysis</li>
<li>Proactively identify reliability risks before they become incidents</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>AI Agent Infrastructure</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Support the platform that runs AI agent workloads — job scheduling, trajectory tracking, environment provisioning, deployments and cost attribution</li>
<li>Develop Kubernetes controllers and operators to extend platform capabilities for agent orchestration</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Collaboration & Internal Tooling</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Work closely with product and backend teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability</li>
<li>Build internal tools, automate workflows, and integrate systems to improve team productivity</li>
<li>Stay current with Kubernetes releases, CNCF ecosystem updates, and cloud-native best practices</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></p>
<p><strong>Core Requirements</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>3+ years of software/platform engineering experience with production systems</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in <strong>Go</strong> or <strong>Python</strong> — you write production code in at least one daily</li>
<li>Hands-on experience <strong>building and deploying services on Kubernetes</strong> — not just YAML, you've developed something that runs on K8s</li>
<li>Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Systems Fundamentals</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Strong <strong>networking and DNS fundamentals</strong> — TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, DNS resolution, TLS, and debugging connectivity issues</li>
<li>Solid <strong>Linux/OS fundamentals</strong> — process management, filesystem, memory, systemd, and comfortable debugging with tools like strace, tcpdump, and netstat</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Data & Messaging Infrastructure</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Relational databases</strong> — experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar; indexing, query optimization, replication, and backup/restore procedures</li>
<li><strong>NoSQL databases</strong> — familiarity with MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar for document/key-value workloads</li>
<li><strong>Caching</strong> — experience with Redis, Memcached, or similar for application and infrastructure-level caching</li>
<li><strong>Message queues & streaming</strong> — hands-on with Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar for event-driven architectures</li>
<li>Strong SQL skills for debugging and operational queries</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Infrastructure & Observability</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Comfortable with the <strong>CNCF ecosystem</strong> — Helm, Kustomize, cert-manager, Ingress controllers, CNI/CSI interfaces</li>
<li>Hands-on with at least one observability stack (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, New Relic, Datadog, or similar)</li>
<li>Familiarity with <strong>GCP</strong> and/or <strong>AWS</strong> — managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), networking, IAM, storage, and cloud-native services (SES, SQS, S3, etc.)</li>
<li>Experience with <strong>CDN/edge platforms</strong> (Cloudflare, CloudFront, or similar)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience building <strong>Kubernetes Operators</strong> (kubebuilder, operator-sdk, or controller-runtime)</li>
<li>Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler)</li>
<li>Familiarity with AI/LLM infrastructure — token management, cost tracking, agent orchestration</li>
<li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines)</li>
<li>Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)</li>
<li>Previous work on large-scale distributed systems or platform-as-a-service</li>
<li>Startup experience — you thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What You're Like</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You're a <strong>generalist</strong> who can context-switch between debugging a K8s deployment, setting up a Grafana alert, and configuring CDN rules — all in the same day</li>
<li>You enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating away toil</li>
<li>You dig deep — when something breaks, you find the root cause, not just the workaround</li>
<li>You communicate clearly and can collaborate effectively in a fast-moving, distributed team</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tech Stack</strong></p>
<p>We don't require previous experience with our entire stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key.</p>
<p>Go · Python · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Helm · GCP · AWS · Cloudflare · Grafana · Prometheus · Loki · New Relic · PagerDuty · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · GitHub</p>
<p><strong>Why Emergent Labs</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>YC S24</strong> backed with strong investor support</li>
<li>Building at the frontier of AI-powered software creation</li>
<li>Small team, high ownership, real impact from day one</li>
</ul>
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