Founding Software Engineer

Beam is building the fastest cloud runtime for AI. Our serverless runtime launches GPU-backed containers in under one second, powering apps that scale to millions of users. Ambitious startups and Fortune 100 companies use Beam to host custom ML models and run LLM-generated code in secure sandboxes. Beam powers millions of requests a day for hundreds of companies using us in production. We’re a small team, but we ship quickly and work collaboratively.

What you’ll work on

• Building new features the span our stack, from the Go/Python backend to frontend, and our SDKs
• Making smooth user experiences in our React/Next.js/Typescript dashboard
• Expanding our usage-based billing system that handles millions of requests per day
• Developing internal tools for managing thousands of customers

Your experience

• Full-stack software engineering experience, ideally with Python and Next.js + React + Typescript
• Previous experience shipping a product from 0 → 1
• Enthusiasm for developer tools, cloud native technologies, and open source software

Who you are

• High-agency: you can own projects end-to-end and make decisions with imperfect information
• Adaptable, curious, and able to quickly understand unfamiliar concepts or domains
• Excited to work 5 days a week in our New York office (or are open to relocating)

Benefits

You’ll have a high degree of ownership in your work, and you will ship products that impact millions of developers worldwide. You’ll have a lot of autonomy: if you’ve got an idea for a feature that solves a customer problem, you can own it end-to-end. We work closely with our customers, so you’ll get immediate customer feedback on your work. We’re a small but fast-moving engineering team, and we’ll help you accomplish the best work of your career.

• Competitive salary with meaningful equity
• Health, dental, vision, 401(k)
• Join a fast-growing pre-series A company at the ground floor
• Fitness stipend, learning budget, quarterly team off-sites