Founding Cloud Architect : Salary + Founders Equity

Founding Cloud Architect – Real-Time Traffic Brain (Day 1)

This is not just another role. This is Day 1. If you want safety and predictability, keep your current job.

If you want to build a global system that rewires how the world moves, this is your call.

The Mission

We don’t accept gridlock as inevitable. Traffic isn’t a force of nature but a solvable systems problem.

We’re a pre-seed deep-tech company building the nervous system for mobility. Hardware senses. Firmware structures. The cloud makes real-time decisions that keep vehicles moving smoothly and predictably.

We’re not hiring an employee. We’re bringing on an owner.

Your Mandate : The Real-Time Brain

As our Founding Cloud Architect, you own the real-time cloud platform that ingests telemetry from tens → hundreds → 100,000+ devices and serves low-latency guidance APIs in seconds. You think in streams, state, security, and SLOs – and you turn those into a coherent, evolvable system.

What You Work With :

You’re comfortable living in most of this stack and excited to shape it :

Streaming & events : Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar plus Flink, Spark Streaming, or ksqlDB; event-time processing, stateful windows, and exactly-once / effectively-once sinks.

No Negotiable (Streaming & events) :

Kafka / Kinesis / Pulsar plus Flink, Spark Streaming, or ksqlDB; event-time processing, stateful windows, and exactly-once / effectively-once sinks.

Cloud & managed services :

AWS (preferred) or similar – IoT / MQTT ingress, serverless or containers, managed databases, and caching (Redis / ElastiCache or equivalent).

IoT & security :

MQTT, TLS / mTLS, X.509 device identity, per-device policies / ACLs, encryption in transit / at rest, least-privilege access control.

Data modeling :

Geospatial and time-series data; per-segment / per-grid “hot state” in low-latency stores, plus efficient storage for historical telemetry and replays.

APIs & latency :

REST / gRPC (FastAPI, Flask, Go, etc.) on top of hot paths, tuned for p95 latencies in the low hundreds of milliseconds.

Observability & operations :

Metrics, logs, traces, health checks, dashboards, alerts; designing and running systems to explicit SLOs, with graceful degradation under partial failure.

Who You Are :

3–5+ years building and operating real-time, high-throughput platforms (IoT, telematics, streaming, adtech, fintech, or similar).

You’ve owned at least one streaming / event-driven system end-to-end : design, implementation, production, and incident response.

Comfortable making and explaining trade-offs between a simple “serverless + managed DB” v0.1 and more advanced streaming backbones at scale.

You write things down – contracts, diagrams, runbooks – and you care about correctness, not just “it works on my machine”.

Founder mindset : first principles, measure, iterate, and own the outcome.

The Offer : Equity first :

founder-level ownership.

Salary :

competitive pre-seed cash to cover burn; optimized for long-term upside.

Ownership, not employment :

your standards will set our cloud culture for years.

Immediate start :

we move at maximum velocity – join within 7 days.

PS. If you really read through it all, and wanna get ahead of everyone in line, drop an email at hi@tigermind.ai, we can get on a call right away. Cheers!