Backend Platform Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco Office

Compensation: $180K – $240K • 0.05% – 0.5%

Employment Type: FullTime

About Usul

Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab helping America and its allies buy technology at the speed of Amazon Prime. We're Stanford dropouts, MIT AI scientists, and Tier-1 Special Forces Operators dedicating our lives to rebuilding the infrastructure that equips the Western world.

We’re the youngest founders to ever win a US Defense contract. Over the past year, we’ve helped Global 500 companies including RTX, BAE Systems, Palantir and Ukrainian drone manufacturers win $12B in contracts across 30 NATO nations.

You’ll be a backend platform engineer building the core platform infrastructure that world governments will use daily to acquire any technology at the speed of relevance.

Who we’re looking for

• 2-8 YOE backend infra experience

• Experience with several of the following: Python, DevOps, Bash, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, and agentic/LLM tooling.

  • Bonus: Typescript

• Has passion for solving mission-critical national security problems

About the interview

• 15-minute screening with Joon (CTO) or Oliver (CPO)

• 30-minute Culture Fit with Jarren (CEO)

• 3-hour Technical Interview with Joon (CTO)

• On-site at San Francisco/DC

• Offer!

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