Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems

logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack. We build agentic systems for Linux and Android devices: we ingest the diagnostic artifacts a device emits (bugreports, logcat, dmesg, modem traces, ramdumps, perfetto, pcap, CAN) and help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack, grounded in their own BSP. A VC-backed startup with a small, senior team — you work directly with the founders.

We recently raised a $2.55M pre-seed. The product is scaling and the customer list is growing. The team is still small, so you'll own what you build.

Own the core platform end to end: ingestion and processing of very large system-log artifacts, the runtime under our AI investigation agents, and the infrastructure that keeps it all reliable for customers. This is a founding seat — architecture, tech selection, CI/CD, and reliability are your calls, and you'll have a real vote in what we build and who we hire next.

We're not hiring for a traditional lane. We want someone who builds the automation, agentic workflows, and self-scaling systems that let a small team ship like a large one.

A note on location

This role is on-site in Bengaluru. We've kept it that way on purpose: the platform work moves fastest with people in a room together, and this is the seat where that matters most. You must be eligible to work in India.

The Bar

A quick, honest gut-check before you spend time on an application. If most of this sounds like you, we'd genuinely love to talk.

• 5+ years building backend or distributed systems at product companies. You've personally owned a system under real load and can talk concretely about its failure modes.
• Full-stack capable: you'll ship the API, the pipeline, the infra, and sometimes the UI.
• AI-native: you build harnesses and evals, not just accept autocomplete.
• Startup DNA: you've worked at an early or high-growth startup, or genuinely want to now. Ownership over lanes, speed over ceremony, many hats.
• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.

What You'll Do

• Build ingestion and processing for very large system-log artifacts, and the runtime our AI investigation agents run on.
• Own the infrastructure that keeps the platform reliable for customers: architecture, tech selection, CI/CD.
• Build the automation and agentic workflows that let a small team ship like a large one.

Bonus

• Observability, logging, or tracing systems.
• eBPF, Perfetto, ftrace.
• OS internals.
• Public OSS track record.

What we offer you

• A front seat as we scale. Customer calls, the roadmap, the pipeline, how the company is actually doing.
• Top-of-market salary and founding equity. You'll own a piece of what you build.
• The AI tools you need. We use AI across writing code, reviewing it, research, ops, and internal tooling. If something would help you work better, we'll get it.
• Early ownership, and full visibility. We move fast, and you'll help decide where.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.
• Start-up perks and flexible time off, the kind people actually take.
• A small team that's easy to work with. People here like solving hard problems and helping each other out.

What to expect after you apply

• Screening call with Head of People & Business Operations
• Technical conversation with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering
• Technical exercise with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering
• Final conversation with CEO
• References, then offer

In your application, tell us what you'd own here, and the hardest thing you've shipped, a link to something you've built beats a resume.