What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer (Infrastructure, DevOps & Secure Deployments) position at Kita (YC W26)?
Kita is seeking a founding engineer to lead infrastructure, deployment architecture, and security for AI systems serving banks and financial institutions in emerging markets.
This role is intended for an exceptional engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud-native systems, managing production infrastructure, and deploying software within highly regulated enterprise environments. The right candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps, cloud architecture, and secure systems design, with the ability to architect and operate reliable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud, and on-premise deployments.
A founding engineer leading DevOps, Infrastructure, & Secure Deployments at Kita will be responsible for building the technical foundation that enables Kita’s products to operate in high-trust, high-stakes settings. This includes designing secure and scalable infrastructure, supporting private and forward-deployed enterprise environments, and ensuring that our systems meet the requirements of institutions where reliability, auditability, data governance, and deployment flexibility are essential.
Requirements
This is a highly applied, forward-deployed role. You will work closely with customers and internal teams to design infrastructure that can support enterprise-scale financial workflows under real-world regulatory and operational constraints.
The position is well suited to an engineer who combines architectural depth with strong execution. At Kita, you will help define the infrastructure and security foundations of the company from the ground up.
This role is intended for an exceptional engineer who is equally comfortable designing cloud-native systems, managing production infrastructure, and deploying software within highly regulated enterprise environments. The right candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps, cloud architecture, and secure systems design, with the ability to architect and operate reliable infrastructure across AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud, and on-premise deployments.
A founding engineer leading DevOps, Infrastructure, & Secure Deployments at Kita will be responsible for building the technical foundation that enables Kita’s products to operate in high-trust, high-stakes settings. This includes designing secure and scalable infrastructure, supporting private and forward-deployed enterprise environments, and ensuring that our systems meet the requirements of institutions where reliability, auditability, data governance, and deployment flexibility are essential.
Requirements
- 3 years engineering cloud infrastructure, networking
- Can contribute across the full stack, with a focus on building resilient, scalable backend systems.
- Independent and autonomous. We expect that every person at the company owns their work and can be a leader.
- Willling to travel to our customers (currently across SEA, LatAm, and South Africa)
- Expertise in IAM and access control, CI/CD, observability, container orchestration
- Production operations - disaster recovery, private networking, and enterprise deployment models spanning SaaS, VPC, hybrid, and fully on-premise environments.
- Familiarity with compliance-oriented software architecture and the operational expectations of large financial institutions is strongly preferred.
This is a highly applied, forward-deployed role. You will work closely with customers and internal teams to design infrastructure that can support enterprise-scale financial workflows under real-world regulatory and operational constraints.
The position is well suited to an engineer who combines architectural depth with strong execution. At Kita, you will help define the infrastructure and security foundations of the company from the ground up.
Salary : $150,000 - $220,000