Founding Engineer (equity) - enum GmbH [Remote] — Cologne
<p>At <strong>enum</strong>, we're building our the <strong>European cloud platform</strong> on bare metal hardware. Not a wrapper around hyperscalers, not a managed Kubernetes reseller, not sovereignty marketing on someone else's infrastructure. We design, operate, and continuously improve the full stack: compute, Kubernetes, storage, and networking. Bare metal to API.</p> <p>We have paying customers, a growing platform, and a small team that builds fast. What we're missing is someone who's built large-scale cloud infrastructure before, someone who already built the things we're building for the first time.</p> <p>We're looking for a <strong>Founding Engineer</strong> to join as the third member of our core engineering team. You'll work directly with the founder (Max) and the core engineering team, make architecture decisions that shape the platform for years, and write the <strong>Go and Rust</strong> code to back them up.</p> <p>You'll get equity, ownership, and the kind of impact that's impossible at a company with layers between you and production.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Design and evolve core platform infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, tenant isolation</li> <li>Write production Go for our control plane, reconcilers, and API services</li> <li>Work on distributed storage architecture and scaling (<strong>Ceph/RADOS</strong>)</li> <li>Work on <strong>network design for multi-tenant</strong> isolation and <strong>multi-region expansion</strong></li> <li>Work on <strong>Kubernetes</strong> control plane internals and cluster lifecycle management</li> <li>Review and challenge what we've built so far, tell us what's fragile, what won't scale, and what needs to change before it's too late</li> <li>Mentor a strong engineer who's learning fast but hasn't operated infrastructure at this scale before</li> <li>Help us make architecture decisions that hold up under growth, not just under demo load</li> <li>Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take some
<p>At <strong>enum</strong>, we're building our the <strong>European cloud platform</strong> on bare metal hardware. Not a wrapper around hyperscalers, not a managed Kubernetes reseller, not sovereignty marketing on someone else's infrastructure. We design, operate, and continuously improve the full stack: compute, Kubernetes, storage, and networking. Bare metal to API.</p> <p>We have paying customers, a growing platform, and a small team that builds fast. What we're missing is someone who's built large-scale cloud infrastructure before, someone who already built the things we're building for the first time.</p> <p>We're looking for a <strong>Founding Engineer</strong> to join as the third member of our core engineering team. You'll work directly with the founder (Max) and the core engineering team, make architecture decisions that shape the platform for years, and write the <strong>Go and Rust</strong> code to back them up.</p> <p>You'll get equity, ownership, and the kind of impact that's impossible at a company with layers between you and production.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Design and evolve core platform infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, tenant isolation</li> <li>Write production Go for our control plane, reconcilers, and API services</li> <li>Work on distributed storage architecture and scaling (<strong>Ceph/RADOS</strong>)</li> <li>Work on <strong>network design for multi-tenant</strong> isolation and <strong>multi-region expansion</strong></li> <li>Work on <strong>Kubernetes</strong> control plane internals and cluster lifecycle management</li> <li>Review and challenge what we've built so far, tell us what's fragile, what won't scale, and what needs to change before it's too late</li> <li>Mentor a strong engineer who's learning fast but hasn't operated infrastructure at this scale before</li> <li>Help us make architecture decisions that hold up under growth, not just under demo load</li> <li>Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take some