
Software Engineer: Backend & Infrastructure at Vooma (San Francisco, CA)
Vooma· San Francisco, CA·
Role details
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team.
You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just robust systems, but help shape the technical backbone of a category-defining company from day one.
You're a great fit if you're known for making infrastructure elegant, reliable, and secure — even under demanding workloads. You find energy in scaling systems that power intelligent agents, and you take pride in building foundations others can depend on.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production
- Deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements
- Managing infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure system reliability
- Contributing to infrastructure security and best practices
You likely have:
- Experience deploying and productionizing ML or AI-heavy workloads
- Expertise in building secure, scalable systems on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Deep knowledge of backend systems, networking, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with infrastructure security principles and compliance (e.g., SOC2)
- The mindset of an owner: proactive, hands-on, and driven to solve problems end-to-end
COMPENSATION
- The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 20 employee
- Competitive compensation
- Significant equity upside
- Medical / dental / vision
This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).
Why work at Vooma
- Culture: Values include “Bias to action” and “Tag, you’re it” — emphasizing ownership, speed, and collaboration.
- Team composition: A mix of technologists (founders from Stanford, Kodiak, Uber ATG) and operators (Bain, private equity-backed logistics). Talent sources include Bain, Flexport, Stanford, and YC.
- Engineering culture: Strong technical foundation — the CTO was a founding engineer at a $250M-funded autonomous trucking startup. Engineering team makes up ~31% of headcount.
- Remote/Hybrid: Based in San Francisco, CA with a presence in Palo Alto, CA. Some roles appear remote-friendly; specific policy varies by role.
- Notable perks: Early-stage equity, opportunity to work on AI agents in a $200B+ addressable market (60% of freight orders still come via email/text/PDF). The company is well-funded ($18.45M) by top-tier investors.
- Recent departures: Founding GTM Luke Walquist left in April 2026 — the team is actively rebuilding go-to-market leadership.