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Founding Engineer (Infrastructure, Applied AI) at Steel

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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:

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

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