Your role, should you choose to join us, will be as an Infrastructure / Backend Engineer on our founding team.
You're the right person for this role if you're excited to build not just robust systems, but help shape the technical backbone of a category-defining company from day one.
You're a great fit if you're known for making infrastructure elegant, reliable, and secure — even under demanding workloads. You find energy in scaling systems that power intelligent agents, and you take pride in building foundations others can depend on.
Your responsibilities will include:
Designing and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for AI-powered agents in production
Deploying and optimizing AI-heavy services with high availability and performance requirements
Managing infrastructure as code, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines
Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting to ensure system reliability
Contributing to infrastructure security and best practices
You likely have:
Experience deploying and productionizing ML or AI-heavy workloads
Expertise in building secure, scalable systems on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
Deep knowledge of backend systems, networking, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
Familiarity with infrastructure security principles and compliance (e.g., SOC2)
The mindset of an owner: proactive, hands-on, and driven to solve problems end-to-end
The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 20 employee
Competitive compensation
Significant equity upside
Medical / dental / vision
This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).
Vooma is a platform for 3PLs, brokers, freight forwarders and carriers to build and manage their AI workers.
Vooma helps logistics companies win and move more freight by deploying AI agents over voice, email and text to quote freight, build loads, schedule appointments, cover loads and track freight.
Vooma proudly supports leading logistics companies like Echo, MoLo, Arrive, Sunset, MODE, Evans and many more.
Customers using Vooma have:
- Covered 20-30% loads with voice agents
- Reduced their load building speed from 5 minutes to 15 seconds
- Quoted 5x more freight per rep per day
- Redeployed 5+ staff in load building to revenue generating activities
Vooma is backed with $16.7M in funding from Y-Combinator, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures and 25 leading logistics founders / CEOs.
Vooma testimonials:
"We can offload rote tasks to stay focused on customer service and work that requires the human touch, so we can keep building meaningful relationships to drive our business forward." - Jack Twyman, Chief Product Officer at MoLo Solutions
"We have already seen a reduction in errors and the scalability in this process is critical to our rapid growth." - Matt Zimmer, President at Zengistics
"Vooma has allowed ShipNova to pull our employees away from unnecessary time spent on mundane order or quote data entry, and instead focus them more into the areas where they shine." - Travis Green, Co-Founder at Shipnova
