- Job title
- Founding Engineer, Full Stack
- Job location
- San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (Seattle, WA, US; Los Angeles, CA, US)
- Job description
- **Cloudglue - Video Understanding Infrastructure**
Cloudglue is a **Y Combinator-backed startup** building developer APIs that turn video and audio into structured, searchable data. Think of us as the Stripe for video understanding - we handle the hard infrastructure (transcription, visual analysis, search, extraction) so developers can build on top of video without managing ML pipelines themselves.
We process millions of minutes of video for customers building search, analytics, and automation products. The engineering problems are real: high-throughput media processing, complex search and retrieval over multimodal data, and APIs that need to be fast, reliable, and a pleasure to use.
Our team has shipped large-scale systems at Snapchat and Amazon, with work presented at AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, NeurIPS, and DEF CON. We’re a small, technical team where engineers have real ownership and direct impact on the product.
**The Role**
We’re looking for a **founding full stack engineer** to build and ship features across Cloudglue’s APIs, developer dashboard, SDKs, and documentation. You’ll be one of the first engineers on the team - this is a high-ownership role where you’ll shape the product and the engineering culture.
You’ll work across the entire stack, from React frontends to backend services to database queries. Day to day, you’ll:
* Own features end-to-end - from API design to UI to production deployment
* Work directly with founders on core product decisions
* Build the tools and interfaces developers use to work with large video collections
* Ship quickly and iterate based on real customer feedback
If you like building polished developer products and moving fast across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, this role is for you.
**What You’ll Do**
* **Build across the stack:** Design and ship features spanning frontend (React/TypeScript), backend services (Node.js/Python/Go), and databases (Postgres).
* **Developer tools:** Build and maintain REST APIs, SDKs (Python/JS), the developer dashboard, and interactive playgrounds.
* **Product integration:** Wire up ML pipeline outputs (transcription, visual analysis, search results) into usable product surfaces and API responses.
* **Ownership:** Take features from idea through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
* **Collaborate:** Work directly with founders, infrastructure engineers, and customers. Short feedback loops, no layers of process.
**What We’re Looking For**
**Required**
* 3+ years building and shipping production web applications
* Strong fundamentals in both frontend and backend development
* Experience with API design and building developer-facing products
* Clear communication and a bias toward shipping
**Nice to Have**
* React, TypeScript, Next.js experience
* Node.js backend experience
* SQL + query optimization
* Experience integrating ML model outputs into production systems
* Familiarity with search systems (vector databases like Milvus/Weaviate, or similar)
* UI/UX instincts for developer tools
**Why Cloudglue?**
Video is the largest and most underutilized data source on the internet. Most software still can’t meaningfully work with it. We’re building the infrastructure to change that - and the product surface you build is how developers will interact with it.
You’ll work on genuinely hard engineering problems, ship software that real developers depend on, and have outsized influence on a product that’s defining a new category.
