Founding Platform Engineer
kos.aiAI Accounting company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
8VC
XYZ Ventures
MVP Ventures
Sachin Katti
Matthew DeNezza
Keith Taylor
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and manage the platform for Kos.ai's virtual finance employee.
- •You'll own the systems that make a virtual employee a real thing in an org chart.
- •An identity with permissions, a laptop, and an inbox.
- •Key Responsibilities Build the platform that gives a single Kos a unified presence across email, Teams, Slack, Zoom, and phone Build the identity, RBAC, and audit-log layer that gives Kos its own permissions in a customer's org.
- •It has to stand up to enterprise security review.
- •Design integrations with customer systems.
- •NetSuite and similar ERPs, SharePoint, Google Drive, and whatever accounting tools a customer runs.
- •Own deployment, observability, and on-call for the production platform as customer count grows Harden the platform so applied engineering can stand up a new customer in days, not weeks Requirements Strong fundamentals: Bachelors / Masters / PhD in CS/EE from top-tier universities, 2+ years of experience You've shipped production systems and you've been on-call for them.
- •Deep experience with at least one of: enterprise identity and RBAC, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace integrations, ERP connectivity (NetSuite, or similar enterprise ERPs like SAP or Oracle), multi-channel messaging infrastructure You bias toward shippable, observable systems over research prototypes.
- •You'd rather ship a working v1 and iterate than design the perfect v3 on a whiteboard.
- •You can own on-call for production and sleep through most nights because your observability is good SOC 2 audits and vendor security questionnaires don't scare you.
- •You've been in the room.
Required skills
KubernetesCI/CDOAuthJWTSAMLSOC 2Slack
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), Visa sponsorship
Tech stack
SlackKubernetesCI/CDDockerOAuthJWTSAMLSOC 2
