[Hiring] Founding Staff Engineer @Outpost red

Role Description

You will be our first full-time engineer working on Outpost's product. The product has two goals:

• Supports our delivery as an agency, aiming to reduce costs by surfacing only the threads worth acting on, learning a subreddit's culture, and drafting in the brand's voice.
• Provides operational tooling for marketers running the accounts, improving margins and increasing client handling capacity.
• Acts as the product our customers use directly, offering insights into what buyers are saying, competitive standings, and actionable next steps.

Qualifications

• Staff-level full stack engineering experience.
• Designed, shipped, and owned production systems end to end.
• Production LLM experience, with practical knowledge of evals, retries, cost, and latency.
• Infrastructure ownership, including cloud, data, and deployments.
• Reddit nativeness is a huge plus, with experience as an active Redditor or in moderating communities.

Requirements

• Experience in full stack engineering.
• Proven track record of managing production systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs in a production environment.
• Ability to manage cloud infrastructure and deployments independently.
• Familiarity with Reddit and its community dynamics is advantageous.

Compensation

• $72,000 – $150,000 USD per year.
• 0.5% to 2% equity vesting over four years with a one-year cliff.
• Compensation varies based on experience, local market, and individual contributions.
• This is a full-time independent contractor arrangement.
• No health benefits and no paid time off.

Location

• Fully remote, anywhere in the Americas.
• Canada, the US, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America: all equally fine.

Timeline

• The start date is between October 15 and November 15, 2026.