What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infra God (Cloud / DevOps Engineer) position at mcp-use (YC S25)?
TL;DR
mcp-use is building open-source dev tools and infrastructure for MCP to help dev teams quickly build and deploy custom AI agents with MCP servers. \ Think of Vercel, but oss and vertical on MCP (Model Context Protocol). \ mcp-use SDK is one of the most popular MCP libraries with 8,000 stars on GitHub and 3,000,000 downloads. \ Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies.
The Role
We are looking for an infra god. You are the person who knows how to build a cloud that just works.
On mcp-use Cloud, companies deploy their own MCP servers and the agents that use them. You will design and build the architecture that powers this whole system, making sure it is fast, secure, and stays up.
You will also create the technical blueprints that allow our platform to run inside different environments. Whether a customer uses AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, you will enable them to run our solution on their own terms.
What you’ll do
mcp-use is building open-source dev tools and infrastructure for MCP to help dev teams quickly build and deploy custom AI agents with MCP servers. \ Think of Vercel, but oss and vertical on MCP (Model Context Protocol). \ mcp-use SDK is one of the most popular MCP libraries with 8,000 stars on GitHub and 3,000,000 downloads. \ Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies.
The Role
We are looking for an infra god. You are the person who knows how to build a cloud that just works.
On mcp-use Cloud, companies deploy their own MCP servers and the agents that use them. You will design and build the architecture that powers this whole system, making sure it is fast, secure, and stays up.
You will also create the technical blueprints that allow our platform to run inside different environments. Whether a customer uses AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, you will enable them to run our solution on their own terms.
What you’ll do
- Build the entire cloud setup for our platform from the ground up.
- Make sure our service can scale as we add thousands of new users.
- Create a way for customers to deploy mcp-use on their own private clouds easily.
- Help us figure out exactly what a startup needs to run a great cloud platform without the headache.
- You will set up the monitoring and dashboard systems so we always know exactly how the platform is performing and can fix issues before users even notice.
- You will build the walls and locks that keep our customers’ data private and secure within their own environments.
- You will ensure that as companies add more MCP servers and agents, the system stays fast and reliable.
- Own everything related to where our code lives and how it runs.
- You have built and managed cloud systems before and know them inside out.
- You know how to make software easy to install and run on different types of servers.
- You are comfortable being the lead on technical architecture for large-scale deployments.
- You have experience setting up the tools needed to watch over a cloud and keep it healthy.
- You like simple solutions over complex ones.
- You are comfortable being the first person to handle infrastructure at a fast-growing startup.
Salary : $100,000 - $135,000