Founding Recruiter

$600B is spent on cloud each year, but no one knows the cost until it's too late. We’re changing that. Since launching Infracost in 2021, we’ve been pulled by engineers who all want to Shift FinOps Left. We enable them to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues before they hit production. We plug directly into developer workflows (like GitHub and Azure Repos), show cost impact in pull requests, enforce tagging and FinOps best practices, and even generate PRs to fix issues automatically. We're backed by Sequoia, YC and trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises. You'll join a small, experienced, and supportive team that's shipping fast, solving real infrastructure problems, and having fun while doing it. Whether you're an engineer tackling complex systems (e.g. parsing massive Terraform repos, scaling real-time systems), a product manager shaping strategy from real customer pain points, or a customer success lead working directly with users; there’s meaningful work here for you. If you care about cloud efficiency, great UX, and helping teams move faster and smarter, we’d love to work with you! Overview This is a high-impact role at the heart of our growth strategy. As our first recruiter, you’ll work directly with our 3 co-founders and others to own hiring end-to-end, from sourcing great talent to welcoming new team members on their first day. You won’t just help us grow; you’ll shape our company culture. We’ll support you to thrive in this role by giving you: full support of the founder’s and our investment partners to assist closing competitive candidates! access to our network across Sequoia Capital, YCombinator and angel investors, which helps with finding candidates, and getting compensation data for different geographies. full support of the founder’s and our investment partners to assist closing competitive candidates! access to our network across Sequoia Capital, YCombinator and angel investors, which helps with finding candidates, and getting compensation data for different geographies. Timezone US or UK timezone, ideally US Eastern time as we hire most of our technical roles in EU. We are fully remote and use Remote.com to hire across US and EU. Responsibilities Own end-to-end hiring: From first outreach to onboarding, you’ll drive the entire process; including sourcing, screening, and closing. You’ll work across roles, with a focus on product engineering (~50% of hires), but also sales, marketing, and customer success. Source incredible talent: Hunt down exceptional engineers and GTM folks. You’re creative, persistent, and love the thrill of finding the perfect fit. Shape candidate experience: You’ll craft thoughtful, engaging interview experiences; from the first call to their first week. Every touchpoint reflects our culture. Close the best: Work with the team to make offers that excite candidates and help them imagine their future here. Use compensation data, founder and even investor support to win top-tier talent. Lead our in-person events: Organize our two annual company meetups: REM (Recurring Employee Meetup) and IPW (In-Person Week). These are team favorites; full of culture, team bonding, and fun. Bonus: “Make It Fun” is basically our unofficial company value. Support culture & ops: Help organize performance reviews, refine our company handbook, and jump into high-leverage projects that help us scale. Own end-to-end hiring: From first outreach to onboarding, you’ll drive the entire process; including sourcing, screening, and closing. You’ll work across roles, with a focus on product engineering (~50% of hires), but also sales, marketing, and customer success. Source incredible talent: Hunt down exceptional engineers and GTM folks. You’re creative, persistent, and love the thrill of finding the perfect fit. Shape candidate experience: You’ll craft thoughtful, engaging interview experiences; from the first call to their first week. Every touchpoint reflects our culture. Close the best: Work with the team to make offers that excite candidates and help them imagine their future here. Use compensation data, founder and even investor support to win top-tier talent. Lead our in-person events: Organize our two annual company meetups: REM (Recurring Employee Meetup) and IPW (In-Person Week). These are team favorites; full of culture, team bonding, and fun. Bonus: “Make It Fun” is basically our unofficial company value. Support culture & ops: Help organize performance reviews, refine our company handbook, and jump into high-leverage projects that help us scale. Prior experience Prior experience of technical recruitment is required, bonus points if it’s in SaaS companies. Prior experience at recruitment agencies or hiring a variety of roles from technical to GTM and G&A is also a bonus. Experience growing startup teams from ~10 to ~100 people is a significant advantage. You must have excellent communication skills and can effectively articulate a company’s vision, mission, and values to candidates. Prior experience of technical recruitment is required, bonus points if it’s in SaaS companies. Prior experience at recruitment agencies or hiring a variety of roles from technical to GTM and G&A is also a bonus. Experience growing startup teams from ~10 to ~100 people is a significant advantage. You must have excellent communication skills and can effectively articulate a company’s vision, mission, and values to candidates. What we value Ustomer, not customer: It is all about seeing us and the customer as one. We like to be a part of the user’s team, and help them however we can. If the user is not successful, then we will not be either so we try to walk in their shoes. It's more than work - we build relationships and community with users and customers. Open is our core: Put yourself out there. Show your learning. Transparency builds confidence. Encourage sharing the good and the bad. The best decisions are made when everyone has access to all the data. Be straightforward and kind, feedback is about your work not your person. Let's JEDI: Let’s Just Effing Do It! Own it and move fast. A good plan fiercely executed now is better than a perfect plan later. We ask for help and unblock each other. The main thing, is to keep the main thing, the main thing. Benefits Fully remote team Two meetups a year - last year we went to Croatia and Barcelona. Employee-friendly equity terms, including a 10 year exercise window 401k matching (US) Health, dental, and vision insurance (US) 31 days paid vacation (includes national holidays) 12 weeks paid parental leave Fully remote team Two meetups a year - last year we went to Croatia and Barcelona. Employee-friendly equity terms, including a 10 year exercise window 401k matching (US) Health, dental, and vision insurance (US) 31 days paid vacation (includes national holidays) 12 weeks paid parental leave Go, TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, AWS Our recent technical challenges Built the best-in-class Terraform static analysis engine. We needed a way we could parse massive Terraform mono-repos as quickly as possible, able to handle tens of thousands of module downloads, as well as gracefully handling incomplete data. Scaled to support customers with thousands of GitHub organizations and tens of thousands of repositories. W’eve overhauled our APIs, interfaces, onboarding processes, infrastructure, and more. Automatically fixing infrastructure issues. With infrastructure changes there's a lower tolerance for AI-generated slop - there's not the same safety nets in terms of testing and the risk is often higher. We've been iterating on our system that combines the AI-generated changes with our best-in-class static analysis engine to robustly open good-quality PRs to fix the most important issues for our customers. Built the best-in-class Terraform static analysis engine. We needed a way we could parse massive Terraform mono-repos as quickly as possible, able to handle tens of thousands of module downloads, as well as gracefully handling incomplete data. Scaled to support customers with thousands of GitHub organizations and tens of thousands of repositories. W’eve overhauled our APIs, interfaces, onboarding processes, infrastructure, and more. Automatically fixing infrastructure issues. With infrastructure changes there's a lower tolerance for AI-generated slop - there's not the same safety nets in terms of testing and the risk is often higher. We've been iterating on our system that combines the AI-generated changes with our best-in-class static analysis engine to robustly open good-quality PRs to fix the most important issues for our customers. 25 minute initial chat Two 55 minute interviews about your recruitment experience 55 minute value-based interview 25 minute initial chat Two 55 minute interviews about your recruitment experience 55 minute value-based interview The above include lots of time for you to get to know us and ask us questions too, so bring your questions!