As a Systems Engineer at Antimetal, you’ll own the systems that power our platform — building high-performance software close to the metal while scaling reliable infrastructure. You’ll tackle tough challenges in distributed systems, performance tuning, and infrastructure provisioning, playing a key role in shaping our stack as we grow.

About Antimetal

Antimetal is building the future of infrastructure management. We're starting by creating a platform that investigates, resolves, and prevents issues—giving engineers their time back to focus on what they do best: building great products.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain Antimetal’s core systems infrastructure (cloud, containers, and integrations).

• Develop high-performance, low-level software to optimize systems for reliability, scalability, and speed.

• Build and scale automations that connect data pipelines, internal tools, and customer-facing services.

• Deploy and manage infrastructure with modern tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines).

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across systems and integrations, driving toward root cause and long-term fixes.

• Collaborate across backend, frontend, and product teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems.

• Author and maintain documentation, runbooks, and standards that raise the bar for operational excellence.

• Partner with leadership to anticipate scaling challenges and design systems that grow with customer demand.

What you bring:

• 5–8 years of engineering experience, with significant exposure to systems, infrastructure, or integrations in production environments.

• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems and data pipelines.

• Proficiency in a low-level systems programming language such as C, C++, Go, or Rust.

• Strong background in Linux systems, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and automation pipelines.

• Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or similar) and IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc.).

• Familiarity with metrics, logging, and tracing systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

• Oncall or incident-response experience, with a focus on reliability and scale.

• Excellent communication skills — you can explain tradeoffs clearly across technical and non-technical teams.

• Passion for building systems that are not just innovative but also practical and impactful.

Bonus:

• Experience writing and debugging assembly code for both RISC and CISC architectures.

• Background in observability/monitoring platforms.

• Deep understanding of agent-based architectures (i.e. system-level eBPF agents).

• Experience working with LLM-based applications or eagerness to deepen expertise in them.

• Contributions to open-source projects.

• Love mentoring and teaching junior engineers.

• Exposure to security engineering or risk assessment frameworks.

• Experience working at an early-stage startup or on zero-to-one systems.

Who you are:

• Identify as a builder.

• Are excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York.

• Love working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one).

• Enjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems.

• Thrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential.

What we bring:

• Pay & ownership — Competitive salary with generous equity grants.

• Full coverage + retirement — Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.

• Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need to recharge.

• Dinner on late nights — Working late? Dinner is on us.

• Fitness stipend — Monthly support for your health and wellness.

• Tools of the trade — Any equipment you need to do your best work.

• Commute perks — Citi Bike + train benefits.

Interview process

1. Application Review – Send us your stuff, and a quick note on why you're excited.

2. Intro Chat: Share what you're looking for next and learn more about what we're building.

3. Founder Interview: Talk with one of our founders in more detail about the role

4. Technical Interview: We’ll have you complete a short exercise specific to the role.

5. Onsite: Come onsite and meet the team through a series of 1:1 interviews.

6. Decision – We’ll move fast.