Jobs Companies E2B Platform Engineer

About this Platform Engineer role at E2B

E2B · Onsite · San Francisco

About E2B

E2B is a fast-growing Series A startup with over $37M in funding and 8-figure revenue. We are building the Agent Cloud and power the infrastructure behind AI labs and some of the most widely used consumer and enterprise agents, including Manus, Genspark, Lindy, ClickUp, Groq, and Artificial Analysis. Our team includes original authors of Firecracker, the AWS microVM technology powering Lambda, along with alumni of Cognition, JetBrains, Zapier, and Wish.

About the role

You will be building the next cloud platform for running AI software - a cloud where AI apps are building other software apps.

Your job will be:

  1. Building a distributed system for millions and billions of AI agents running on E2B

  2. Building an orchestrator for placing sandboxes in the right nodes

  3. Adding support for sandbox live migrations

  4. Making sure our self-hosting DX is as smooth as possible (we’re open-source)

  5. Not letting our sandboxes take more than 200ms to start (starting with the user hitting enter)

  6. Scaling to millions and later billions of sandboxes running at the same time

  7. Building an observability stack starting at the kernel level of virtual machines

We’re looking for an infrastructure engineer passionate about making things run fast and efficiently, and running A LOT of them at the same time.

If you aren’t afraid of going into the kernel of a VM and words like Firecracker, eBPF, UFFD, block device, L4 load balancing, noisy neighbor problem, or hugepages sound exciting to you, we want to hear from you!

 

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years building distributed systems - You've operated infrastructure at serious scale (100K+ RPS, multi-region, PB-scale data) and understand the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance in practice, not just theory

  • Deep Linux internals expertise - You're comfortable working at the kernel level. You've debugged performance issues using eBPF, understand CPU scheduling, memory management, and can explain the difference between cgroups v1 and v2 without looking it up

  • VM hypervisor experience - You've worked with Firecracker, QEMU, KVM, or similar. You understand virtio, know what a hypercall is, and have opinions about nested virtualization trade-offs

  • Systems programming skills - Strong in at least one of: Go, Rust, C/C++. You've written performance-critical code and know when to reach for lock-free data structures, memory-mapped files, or io_uring

  • Production orchestration experience - You've built or operated orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Nomad, or custom). You understand bin-packing algorithms, resource scheduling, and have dealt with noisy neighbor problems at scale

  • Performance obsession - You've shaved milliseconds off hot paths, understand CPU caches and memory locality, and have profiled production systems under load. You know what "p99 latency" means and care deeply about making it better

  • Networking expertise - Strong understanding of L4/L7 load balancing, network namespaces, iptables/nftables, and how to build secure, isolated network topologies for multi-tenant systems

  • Located in San Francisco or willing to relocate - We work in person as a team and believe in the magic that happens when engineers collaborate face-to-face on hard problems

  • Excited about open source - Comfortable with our code and infrastructure being public. You contribute to discussions, write clear documentation, and help the community succeed with self-hosting

Bonus points for:

  • Experience with userfaultfd (UFFD), copy-on-write mechanisms, or lazy loading

  • GPU passthrough or PCIe device virtualization experience

  • Built or maintained infrastructure for AI/ML workloads

  • Contributions to Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, or similar open source projects

  • Experience with observability at scale (distributed tracing, kernel-level metrics)

What it’s like to work at E2B

We’re a fast-growing startup with in-person (4 days on-site, 1 day WFH) offices in San Francisco and Prague, Czech Republic. We already generate 8-figure revenue and work directly with top-tier AI companies like Manus, Genspark, Lindy, ClickUp, Groq, Artificial Analysis and other exciting teams pushing the frontier of AI.

We offer healthcare, vision, and dental insurance, unlimited PTO, 401k, and a variety of perks for in-office employees.

Ready to apply to E2B?
Apply to E2B

How this DevOps salary compares

This role pays $300,000/yrabove the typical range for DevOps roles.

$169,275 median $227,600 $359,000

Typical range $200,000–$285,500/yr, from 253 comparable DevOps listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See DevOps salary insights →

Similar jobs

Sprig
Senior Platform Engineer
Sprig
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Hybrid $180,000–$260,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1h ago
Stitch Fix
ML Platform Engineer
Stitch Fix
⚡ Apply early Remote, USA · location restricted $136,000–$167,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
Altruist
Senior Back End Engineer, Platform
Altruist
⚡ Apply early Los Angeles, CA Hybrid $170,000–$225,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5h ago
Cloudflare
Systems Engineer - Database Platform
Cloudflare
⚡ Apply early Hybrid Hybrid $157,000–$196,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5h ago
Mercor
Cloud Platform Engineer (SF)
Mercor
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $190,000–$230,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 5h ago
Altruist
Senior Back End Engineer, Platform
Altruist
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Hybrid $200,000–$240,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 6h ago
Altruist
Staff Back End Engineer, Platform
Altruist
⚡ Apply early Los Angeles, CA Hybrid $181,000–$265,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 6h ago
Decagon
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform
Decagon
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $200,000–$400,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 9h ago
Motive
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Motive
⚡ Apply early Hybrid - San Francisco, Califo... Hybrid $200,000–$235,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 10h ago

Sign up for suggestions tailored to the jobs you open and the searches you save.

More jobs at E2B

See all jobs at E2B →

Apply now
🤖

Whoa — hold up

JobsRadar was built for real people having a rough time in their job search — not for automated requests. You're clicking way too fast and you're now temporarily blocked.

Come back later. If you're genuinely job hunting, we've got your back — just act like a human.

Catch your next role the second it’s posted.

Create a free account and we’ll watch the boards for you — the instant a job matches your search, it lands in your inbox or Telegram. No digging, no refreshing.

Create free account

Free forever · takes 30 seconds · already have one?

Get an edge on your job hunt.

Join our Telegram channel for the stuff that helps you land the role — salary benchmarks, the weekly market pulse, and new-feature drops. No spam, just signal.

Join the channel — it's free