Foundations Engineer (Deep Platform)

The role

This person will design, build, and operate the infrastructure and internal platform behind Rox's agent runtime. They will work across foundational infrastructure and the developer platform experience to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and observable.

What you will do

• Design and build core infrastructure powering Rox agents.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of distributed systems.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and platform tooling.
• Develop systems for real-time context ingestion and low-latency retrieval.
• Support execution frameworks for long-running agent workflows.
• Improve developer experience through automation, tooling, and self-service infrastructure.
• Partner closely with product engineers and forward deployed engineers.
• Help establish engineering standards around monitoring, incident response, performance, and operational maturity.
• Ship production systems quickly and evolve them based on real-world usage.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure and backend systems.
• Strong experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed backend systems.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and developer platforms.
• Familiarity with Distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Observability and reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with Real-time data or streaming systems.
• Strong intuition for reliability, scalability, latency, and operational tradeoffs.
• Comfort debugging production systems and solving problems across infrastructure and application layers.
• A bias toward shipping, learning from production, and continuously improving systems.
• Ability to work across both platform and infrastructure domains depending on company priorities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision, including 100% company-paid plans for you and eligible dependents
• Company-paid life & AD&D, plus short- and long-term disability
• 401(k) with automatic enrollment
• Unlimited PTO, plus paid sick leave, company holidays, and bereavement
• Up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay (birth, adoption, or foster)
• Wellness stipend: $375/quarter
• Learning stipend: up to $2,000/year
• Internet & cell phone stipend: $25/month
• Mental health support, virtual care, and care navigation
• Fertility & family-building support, plus backup care membership
• Pre-tax commuter benefits (transit & parking)
• SF HQ: daily catered breakfast & lunch, meal allowances, and rideshare support when commuting to the office

About the company

Rox is building a revenue operating system with autonomous revenue agents. The platform powers Global 2000 leaders and dominant AI winners.