[Hiring] Technical Co-Founder @Dunetrace UG

Role Description

Dunetrace is looking for a Technical Co-Founder to join us in building the infrastructure layer for reliable AI agents. As Technical Co-Founder, you will be a core technical leader of Dunetrace and will have significant ownership over our technology, architecture, product, and engineering direction. This is a hands-on founding role.

You will work closely with the founder and customers to determine what we build, how we build it, and where Dunetrace can establish a significant technical advantage.

• Own the overall technical vision and architecture of Dunetrace
• Build and ship core product and infrastructure
• Design scalable systems for AI agent reliability and runtime control
• Work on areas including agent execution, telemetry, evaluation, detection, policies, and automated remediation
• Make key decisions around architecture, infrastructure, APIs, developer experience, and security
• Work closely with early customers and translate their problems into product and technical solutions
• Help shape the open-source project and developer community
• Recruit and build the engineering team as the company grows
• Help define Dunetrace's long-term technical strategy and roadmap

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience building production systems
• Deep understanding of backend systems, distributed systems, APIs, and infrastructure
• Strong coding ability and a willingness to remain hands-on
• Experience taking products from early-stage development to production
• Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions
• High ownership and comfort operating in an early-stage startup environment
• Genuine interest in AI agents and the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem
• Candidates should be based in Germany. Previous founder or early-stage startup experience is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Experience with one or more of the following is a strong plus:
• AI agents and agentic frameworks
• AI/LLM observability
• Distributed systems and developer infrastructure
• OpenTelemetry or related observability technologies

Benefits

• Significant co-founder equity with vesting
• Base salary
• Full ownership of technical direction
• Remote-first working environment in Germany