Own People Operations, recruiting, and culture initiatives for a distributed international startup. Responsibilities include managing global employment and contractor agreements, compliance, compensation frameworks, onboarding, offboarding, policies, HR data, end-to-end recruiting, hiring processes, agencies, candidate experience, company offsites, engagement programs, and internal people projects. The role builds scalable systems while partnering directly with company founders.

Build and maintain AI services for a sovereign data lakehouse, including MCP servers, model gateways, SQL AI functions, and Spark troubleshooting agents. Develop AI platform integrations, agent frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and Kubernetes deployments. Collaborate with customer engineering teams, troubleshoot integrations, contribute to architecture, and produce tests, documentation, and release notes. The role requires production experience with LLM systems, distributed systems, and software engineering, primarily using Python or Go.

The Senior Software Engineer will work on building and operating scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure while collaborating closely with customer engineering teams to resolve real-world challenges in enterprise data systems.