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title: 'I''m Awesome at Minimal'
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# I'm Awesome at Minimal

- **Company:** Minimal
- **Location:** Canada / United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minimal/jobs/4174408009

## Job description

Minimal is growing fast and we want to work with genuinely awesome folks.

We'd love to hear about your experience and why you think you'd be a good fit for our team. Even if we don't have an opportunity now, we may soon.

## About Us

We’re building a secure, reproducible foundation for software everywhere, that makes building, maintaining, and releasing software predictable and effortless for everyone. We’re looking to carefully grow our team with people that are excited about building a workflow that feels lightyears ahead of everything else.

Our stack spans Rust (CLI tooling), TypeScript (Cloud frontend), and Go (backend services), all running on GCP. If you're energized by the idea of working across boundaries, owning problems end-to-end, and building something meaningful from the ground up, we want to chat.

## What we're looking for

- Comfort with ambiguity, and able to take loosely defined problems and figure out what needs to happen
- A dynamic team player and seek to make valuable contributions wherever it is most-needed at any given time
- You follow through, communicate proactively, and care about the outcome
- You share credit, ask for help when you need it, and make the people around you better
- Experience at an early-stage startup

## What we offer

- Competitive base compensation
- Equity stake in the company
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- Retirement plans with employer matching
- Remote-first work environment
- Flexible PTO with a minimum suggested utilization of 3 weeks

Candidate location

We are open to candidates who are authorized to work in Canada or the USA. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship at this time. We have a strong preference for candidates who are in PST, and will consider candidates within +/-2 hours of PST who are strongly aligned to the role and our mission.

## Equal opportunity

Minimal is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Minimal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Minimal provides reproducible, isolated development environments with built-in supply chain security, designed for developers, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage startup; funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (corporate entity registered in Canada in 2025)
- **Founders**: Jake King (CEO), Michael Edward Sample

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Developer tools, infrastructure, CI/CD, software supply chain security
- **Target customers**: B2B – engineering teams, platform engineers, security teams, AI agent developers, enterprise IT
- **Mission or purpose**: “To provide a secure, reproducible foundation for software everywhere, that makes building, maintaining, and releasing software predictable and effortless for everyone.”

## Products & Services
- **[Minimal CLI](https://minimal.dev/)**: A local-first command-line tool that creates hermetic, reproducible environments using Linux namespace isolation (microVMs on endpoints). Includes content-addressed caching, SBOM generation, cryptographic attestation, and policy enforcement. Supports macOS (ARM64) and Linux (x86-64, ARM64).
- **[Minimal Cloud](https://minimal.dev/)**: Managed enterprise tier with shared private cache, policy enforcement, audit trail, and SLSA Build L2+ attestation. Designed for teams needing deterministic environments at scale.
- **Curated Package Library**: A verified, open-source package ecosystem with provenance testing (SLSA Build L3, CycloneDX v1.5 SBOMs, VEX suppression). Packages are compiled from source in hermetic environments and cached for fast dependency resolution.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Early access product; no public revenue or funding figures
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for multiple engineering roles (Frontend, Rust, Site Reliability Engineer); building for the emerging AI agent and supply chain security markets; corporate entity established in Canada in 2025

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hermetic isolation with performance**: Uses microVMs on sensitive endpoints and lightweight process sandboxing on Linux, claiming 13x faster environment boot than Docker and 80% leaner storage.
- **Supply chain provenance by default**: Every environment and artifact includes SLSA Build L3 attestation, CycloneDX SBOMs, and cryptographic verification – a differentiator for security-conscious teams.
- **Daemonless architecture**: No background daemon, reducing resource overhead and attack surface.
- **Built from the ground up in Rust**: Fast, performant, and memory-safe foundation.
- **Local-first, cloud-extensible**: Works offline with CLI, scales to teams via Minimal Cloud.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agent-ready environments**: Positioning as the “coworking space for developers and agents” – ensuring deterministic, isolated runs for AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor.
- **Enterprise supply chain compliance**: Providing audit-ready attestation and policy enforcement for regulated industries.
- **Growing the package ecosystem**: Expanding curated library of verified open-source packages across languages and build systems.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Open to candidates in Canada or USA (PST +/- 2 hours); no visa sponsorship currently.
- **Competitive compensation**: Base salary, equity stake, health/dental/vision, retirement with employer matching, flexible PTO (minimum 3 weeks suggested).
- **Early-stage impact**: Opportunity to shape product and engineering culture from the ground up; stack includes Rust (CLI), TypeScript (frontend), Go (backend), and GCP.
- **Values**: Emphasis on proactive communication, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and making teammates better.
- **Engineering culture**: Described as “building a workflow that feels lightyears ahead” – ideal for builders who enjoy cross-boundary problem solving.

## Sources
1. [minimal.dev](https://minimal.dev/)
2. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Minimal](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minimal)
3. [Greenhouse – I'm Awesome application](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minimal/jobs/4174408009)
4. [remoet.dev – Minimal profile](https://www.remoet.dev/listings/minimal)
5. [opengovca.com – Minimal.dev Software Inc.](https://opengovca.com/corporation/17126948)