Founding Infrastructure Engineer
Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory building tools, standards, and communities for digital self-governance, network governance, and public-interest AI.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Metagov
Metagov cultivates tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Its activities span community, research, and participatory operations, including governance infrastructure, DAO standards, online-community tools, knowledge infrastructure, datasets, seminars, and public-interest AI initiatives. Metagov was founded in 2019 and officially spun out as an independent nonprofit in January 2020.
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About the Role
Technical owner of the operational backbone for a public AI inference utility, responsible for reliability, observability, routing transparency, production ML serving infrastructure, and coordination across cloud and HPC partners.
Requirements
- Significant experience operating production inference or ML serving infrastructure
- Strong distributed systems and SRE instincts
- Experience with observability, incident response, fallback design, and capacity planning
- Comfort working with cloud providers, sovereign HPC centers, and institutional IT
- Experience orchestrating multiple stacks and open-source projects
- Maintainer and integrator experience
- Ability to work autonomously in a small team
- Ability to travel occasionally for team workshops
Responsibilities
- Harden the platform for major launches
- Perform load testing and build fallback routing
- Set up monitoring and end-to-end observability
- Ship downtime warnings and fallback behavior
- Implement routing transparency and endpoint provenance
- Improve public endpoint performance
- Integrate MCP and programmatic infrastructure interfaces
- Operate production inference and ML serving infrastructure
- Coordinate with cloud providers and HPC centers
- Orchestrate and integrate open-source stacks