Founding Systems Engineer (Sydney)

Founding Systems Engineer (Sydney)

10 Nov
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KIND ADVISORY
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Sydney

10 Nov

KIND ADVISORY

Sydney

Want to be on the team that solve infinite compute?

Be one of the first engineers at one of the most exciting companies in the world right now, with one of the biggest employee share pools of any Australian company - where you will build the systems that free people from the limits of a single computer.

Open Figma, render in Blender, load a local model and run a handful of coding agents at once, and your laptop gives up. This startup is removing that ceiling. Its infinite compute engine, a native Mac app plus hardware that augments your machine, spins up Linux, macOS and iOS virtual machines in the cloud and makes them feel local. A prototype already runs Linux VMs, and launch is set for the end of Q1.

It's backed by two of Australia's best-known VCs. The founder is on his fourth company, with an acquisition and a unicorn journey behind him.

The role

Two founding Systems Engineer seats are open. One goes deep on the OS and virtualisation layer. The other owns security, privacy and encryption. Either way, you own it end to end, from architecture to production. Most of the product can be built rapid. Yours is the last 10%: no lag, no lost state, nothing that falls over.

What you'll work on

- Spin-up: snapshots, warm pools and copy-on-write images, so a VM is ready before the user notices
- Contention: packing guests onto hosts without one user slowing another
- Streaming: a remote machine that feels local, from network to pixels
- State: sessions that survive crashes, restarts and moves between hosts




- Concurrency: scheduling, cancellation and agents running in parallel
- Isolation: tenant boundaries, and sandboxes for untrusted agent code
- Encryption: keys, data at rest and in transit, and what the platform itself can't see
- Instrumentation: telemetry that shows what broke before a user does

About you

- You have deep systems fundamentals, and real depth in at least one of Linux, virtualisation, networking, storage, distributed systems, runtime internals or security
- You reason about concurrency, latency and failure modes, and debug methodically
- You can't leave an edge case alone
- You've built things other engineers build on: infrastructure, libraries, runtimes or open source
- You use AI every day and build a lot of your own projects
- You want founder-level ownership and are comfortable with ambiguity
- Nice to have: Firecracker, KVM, microVMs or remote desktop tech

What's on offer

- A base salary you set: tell them what you need, plus super
- Around 2% founding equity (four-year vesting, one-year cliff), from a pool built so the first 10 and 20 people own a real stake
- No management track: you own problems, not people
- No code tests: an architecture chat with the founder, then a deep dive with a three-time founder and CTO
- In person in Sydney, remote for the first month or two, with relocation and visa sponsorship

If you want to build the layer everything else runs on, let's talk. Apply now!

📌 Founding Systems Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 KIND ADVISORY
📍 Sydney

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