Staff Founding Engineer
Foam ·
staff
Salary Range (USD)
$300k - $400k
Location
San Francisco, USA
Visa Support
Supported
Funding Stage
seed
Job Responsibilities
- • Reducing onboarding time from hours to seconds
- • Scaling telemetry engine into the petabytes
- • Collapsing latency from minutes to seconds
Engineering Culture & Tech Stack
hands on keyboard
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Foam | Staff Founding Eng | In-Person, San Francisco | Full-time (M-F 9am-7pm) | $300-$400k/yr + equity
Foam is building a Better Sentry on an observability stack purpose-built for AI. We automatically identify and root-cause breakages across systems with zero prompting and zero configuration then DM the engineer responsible, not the git-blamed engineer.
We're looking for a hands on keyboard Staff Founding Engineer who's been unshackled by modern coding agents.
Here's a few of the problems we'd love your help on:
1. Reducing our onboarding time from hours to seconds
2. Scaling our telemetry engine into the petabytes
3. Collapsing our latency from minutes to seconds
4. Beating our intern at chess (ELO 2200)
You'll be joining an incredible team:
1. Ben, Software Engineer Intern, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hung/, beat out dozens of seniors on our coding challenges while holding a 3.9+ GPA in Berkeley EECS and 2200 in Rapid chess
2. Nyx, Founding Research Engineer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyx-iskandar/, Prev VP ML@Berkeley, Open AI Launchpad Researcher, Berkeley EECS (2.5yrs w/3.98 GPA)
3. Luke, Co-Founder & COO, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukemercado/, Fmr CTO & Co-Founder @ Daybreak Health (S20, Series B), self taught SWE (2013), college reject
4. Shawn, Co-Founder & Engineer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-krisman/, early @ Yelp, Everlane, Reddit, Patreon & Affirm
5. Perla, Co-Founder & CEO, https://www.linkedin.com/in/perla-gamez/, delivered ~$X00M revenue @ Affirm as a SWE, Berkeley CS ('18), Honduras National Karate Champ
We've raised $10M in seed funding from Khosla Ventures, Max Levchin, The House Fund, and South Park Commons and others.
Visas Supported: H1B Transfer, H1B1, TN, E-3, OPT-STEM
Email careers at foam dot ai with your resume and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.
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