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In-office

Founding Engineers (Infrastructure, Applied AI), Growth, GTM

CompanyIn-office
Websitechallenge.steel.dev
Roles
  • Founding Engineers (Infrastructure, Applied AI), Growth, GTM
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Infrastructure Engineer
  • Applied AI Engineer
  • Founding Growth Lead
  • Founding GTM Lead
Role taxonomyInfrastructure / SRE / DevOpsAI / ML / ResearchGTM / Business / OpsFrontendBackendLead / Manager
SpecialtiesInfrastructure, Machine Learning, GTM / Ops, Frontend, Backend
LocationToronto, San Francisco
SalaryEquity mentioned
Apply viaApplication linkhttps://jobs.ashbyhq.com/steel
Hiring notes
TechTypeScriptReactNode.jsGoRustPostgreSQLDockerML/AI
Parsed locationsToronto, San Francisco
Posted byhuss97
PostedJan 15, 2026
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Steel.dev | Founding Engineers (Infrastructure, Applied AI), Growth, GTM | Toronto, San Francisco | In-office Steel is building open-source browser infrastructure for AI agents & apps. We make it easy for AI engineers to ship products that interact with the web using our Sessions API - An API that controls fleets of browser sessions in the cloud while we handle everything from scaling to antibot and more. Our tech stack: - Frontend: Vanilla React + TailwindCSS + Shadcn, built with Vite, deployed on Vercel - Backend: Fastify, Node.js, Zod, NATs, Drizzle with Redis, PostgreSQL, and S3 - Infrastructure: Pulumi, Go, Firecracker VMs, Docker - Languages: Mostly Typescript, Rust, Go With over 6,000 GitHub stars, dozens of paying customers, and millions of sessions served, we grew our platform 50x in 2025 purely through word-of-mouth and our open-source community. Backed by world-class investors, we're building a small, talent-dense team that's shaping the future of how humans & agents interact with the internet. Current roles (all roles include competitive comp + equity): - Infrastructure Engineer: Design, optimize, and scale our browser VM infrastructure - Applied AI Engineer: Build on agent frameworks, integrations, and real-world AI use cases - Founding Growth Lead: Own the growth machine to turn insane organic traction into a category-defining brand - Founding GTM Lead: Be our first sales hire, closing deals with AI startups transforming entire industries To learn more & apply (Mention HN): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/steel P.S. If you're feeling spicy, try our optional hiring challenge and submit the flag with your application once you reach the final step → https://challenge.steel.dev