Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since our public launch, we've crossed $100M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries. We're backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.
What You'll Do:
Platform and Infrastructure
- Maintain stability of our platform consisting of distributed microservices closely interacting with Kubernetes and cloud providers (GCP, AWS)
- Manage Kubernetes workloads with ArgoCD (GitOps), deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot application syncs, resource trees, and rollouts
- Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across clusters
- Manage CDN and edge infrastructure (Cloudflare) for performance, caching, and traffic management
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle operations and workflows
Observability and Incident Response
- Own the observability stack: Grafana (dashboards, Loki logs, Prometheus metrics) and New Relic (APM, golden metrics, transaction analysis)
- Enhance monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across services
- Participate in on-call rotation via PagerDuty, handle incident response, and perform root cause analysis
- Proactively identify reliability risks before they become incidents
AI Agent Infrastructure
- Support the platform that runs AI agent workloads including job scheduling, trajectory tracking, environment provisioning, deployments, and cost attribution
- Develop Kubernetes controllers and operators to extend platform capabilities for agent orchestration
Collaboration and Internal Tooling
- Work closely with product and backend teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability
- Build internal tools, automate workflows, and integrate systems to improve team productivity
- Stay current with Kubernetes releases, CNCF ecosystem updates, and cloud-native best practices
What We're Looking For:
Core Requirements
- 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience with production systems
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python, you write production code in at least one daily
- Hands-on experience building and deploying services on Kubernetes, not just YAML, you've developed something that runs on K8s
- Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
Systems Fundamentals
- Strong networking and DNS fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, DNS resolution, TLS, and debugging connectivity issues
- Solid Linux/OS fundamentals: process management, filesystem, memory, systemd, and comfortable debugging with tools like strace, tcpdump, and netstat
Data and Messaging Infrastructure
- Relational databases: experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar; indexing, query optimization, replication, and backup/restore procedures
- NoSQL databases: familiarity with MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar for document/key-value workloads
- Caching: experience with Redis, Memcached, or similar for application and infrastructure-level caching
- Message queues and streaming: hands-on with Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar for event-driven architectures
- Strong SQL skills for debugging and operational queries
Infrastructure and Observability
- Comfortable with the CNCF ecosystem: Helm, Kustomize, cert-manager, Ingress controllers, CNI/CSI interfaces
- Hands-on with at least one observability stack (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, New Relic, Datadog, or similar)
- Familiarity with GCP and/or AWS: managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), networking, IAM, storage, and cloud-native services (SES, SQS, S3, etc.)
- Experience with CDN/edge platforms (Cloudflare, CloudFront, or similar)
Good to Have:
- Experience building Kubernetes Operators (kubebuilder, operator-sdk, or controller-runtime)
- Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler)
- Familiarity with AI/LLM infrastructure: token management, cost tracking, agent orchestration
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Previous work on large-scale distributed systems or platform-as-a-service
- Startup experience, you thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
Who You Are:
- A generalist who can context-switch between debugging a K8s deployment, setting up a Grafana alert, and configuring CDN rules, all in the same day
- You enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating away toil
- You dig deep, when something breaks, you find the root cause, not just the workaround
- You communicate clearly and can collaborate effectively in a fast-moving, distributed team
Tech Stack:
We don't require previous experience with our entire stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key: Go, Python, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, New Relic, PagerDuty, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and GitHub.
Benefits and Perks:
- 401(k)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited Paid Time Off: take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
- Flexible Working Hours: work arrangements that fit your life and commitments
Let's build the future of software together.
