Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Control Plane — Cofounder

Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Control Plane— Cofounder

Equity Only (Pre-funding, No Initial Salary). Role:
Part-time.

We’re building a patent‑pending pre‑execution governance layer for regulated and distributed systems.

This role is equity‑based
. We are pre‑revenue and entering our first pre‑seed raise. We’re looking for a Control Plane / Distributed Systems Engineer to join as a cofounder and take full ownership of the product core. This is not a feature role, not a UI role, and not a “move fast and patch later” system. If this hire is wrong, everything downstream breaks.

You are the final technical authority on the execution layer.

You will:

• Design and own the execution governance architecture
• Establish hard in variants the system will never violate
• Decide what executes, what is rejected, and why
• Kill feature creep early—publicly and calmly
• Set the rules every other engineer must build under

This role has veto power
.

• Pre‑execution validation and gating services
• Deterministic execution flows (no “best‑effort” logic)
• Policy enforcement before runtime
• Service‑to‑service trust boundaries
• Infrastructure‑agnostic control logic

If you’ve designed systems where failure modes matter
, you’ll feel at home.

We’re looking for depth, not keywords. You should have real experience with several of the following:

• Distributed systems and backend architecture
• Control planes, schedulers, or orchestration layers
• Strongly opinionated API and service design
• Stateless vs stateful execution trade‑offs
• Languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or equivalent
• Message‑driven or request‑driven systems (gRPC, queues, streams)

You’ve shipped systems where correctness beat speed
.

• “No — that violates the execution model.”
• “This doesn’t belong in the control layer.”
• “That feature creates an implicit policy leak.”
• “We don’t support that — by design.”

• Not a mobile role
• Not a frontend role
• Not a blockchain‑hype role
• Not a Dev Ops‑only role
• Not a consensus‑protocol research post

You won’t be polishing UIs or chasing frameworks.

Without this hire, you get:

• Governance bolted on after the fact
• Fragile systems that work… until they don’t

This role prevents all of that.

• Founder (product & governance)
• UI and integration engineers downstream

You define the ground they build on.

• Remote‑first
• Cofounder‑level ownership
• Equity meaningful enough to care
• Long‑term commitment, not contract churn

If you’ve built systems that other systems must obey
, we want to hear from you.

Apply via Linked In or send your CV to .

If you’re looking to experiment, iterate casually, or “see how it goes” — this won’t be a fit.