ROLE SPECIFICATION // 21QCZ1•ACTIVELY_INTERVIEWINGYC COHORT // YC W24 // AUTONOMOUS AI
Staff Systems Infrastructure Engineer
YC
Y Combinator Verified IngestionYC W24 // AUTONOMOUS AI
Direct from Cognition AI (Devin) Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$220k - $310kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.5% - 2%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 16 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
GoRustLinux KernelDockereBPFKubernetesgRPC
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Cognition created Devin, the world's first autonomous AI software engineer. Devin runs commands, writes code, debugs microservices, and resolves production GitHub PRs.
Current Technical Challenges & 90-Day Deliverables:
• Engineer ephemeral microVM isolation spinning up full Linux dev environments in <80ms with deterministic filesystem snapshots.
• Construct eBPF security monitors enforcing airtight sandbox boundaries while permitting outbound developer package installs.
• Scale distributed execution orchestrators handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent autonomous agent sessions.
• Implement instant memory rollback and checkpoint restoration under heavy container resource pressure.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
Founding Infrastructure Call45m
Deep dive with Scott and senior infrastructure team on container hypervisors and Linux namespace primitives.
2
Kernel & Sandbox Architecture Review60m
Architecture session on rapid microVM provisioning, copy-on-write filesystems, and eBPF syscall filtering.
3
Paid 1-Day Trial PR1 Day
Compensated real-world trial ($1,500) debugging sandbox isolation in our orchestration environment.
4
Executive Offer Lock24h
Formal transparent offer with guaranteed base salary and Tier-1 autonomous AI equity allocation.
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: BUILDER DOSSIER