AI-First Generalist Engineer - Patch Backporting Infrastructure (remote, Europe)

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We're looking for AI-First Generalist Engineer · Patch Backporting Infrastructure to join our team tackling the challenge of AI-powered patch backporting.

The Mission

We automate patch management and vulnerability mitigation across large-scale Linux systems, powered by AI. We need a generalist engineer who doesn't just "use" AI tools occasionally — but who develops through AI agents as a default working mode. You'll orchestrate AI-assisted coding tools to design, build, test, and ship services, data pipelines, and automation infrastructure that our backporting platform runs on.

You'll own critical workstreams end-to-end: transitioning services onto a new Automation Pipeline, onboarding a new product, migrating historical data — all at a pace that's only possible when AI agents are first-class participants in your development workflow. The stack is primarily Python today, but we're hiring for engineering versatility, not language loyalty.

What You'll Drive

1. AI-First Engineering & Infrastructure

• Build and extend services, CLIs, and data pipelines — using AI agents as your primary development lever to achieve extreme iteration speed.
• Adjust and enhance the existing AI-powered backporting automation to handle new data types and product requirements.
• Migrate tens of thousands of entries of historical data between storage systems while maintaining compatibility with downstream tooling.
• Design and implement workflows for features currently missing from the automation pipelines.
• Treat iteration velocity as a first-class metric — build the way you ship: fast, measurable, and with AI doing the heavy lifting on boilerplate, tests, and scaffolding.

2. Platform Transition & Delivery

• Drive the migration of teams and services from the legacy pipeline to the new Automation Pipeline infrastructure, ensuring zero disruption to ongoing backporting work.
• Audit both old and new pipeline implementations — make sure nothing viable is lost in transit.
• Onboard the new product seamlessly into the existing ecosystem, designing any missing integrations along the way.

3. Collaboration & Scaling

• Collaborate across units to onboard more customers and domains onto the shared benchmarking infrastructure.
• Bypass the documentation tax: leverage AI to automate knowledge sharing, onboarding artifacts, and technical documentation — the team scales through high-signal artifacts, not meetings.
• Share updates on delivered features effectively and asynchronously.

Requirements

What You'll Bring

Must-Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of professional experience as a developer or engineering lead
• Generalist engineering DNA — comfortable across the stack: backend services, CI/CD pipelines, data migrations, infrastructure-as-code. You pick up whatever language or tool the problem demands.
• Hands-on LLM integration — experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and familiarity with techniques like RAG, CAG, and agentic patterns
• AI-native development workflow — you actively use AI coding agents (Cursor, Windsurf, aider, Claude Code, etc.) not as a novelty but as your primary mode of building software
• Infrastructure skills — CI/CD (Jenkins / GitLab CI), containerization (Docker), testing automation
• Experience establishing projects from scratch, including basic DevOps setup
• Ownership mindset — you find bottlenecks and build the tooling to remove them, without waiting for a ticket
• Cross-functional teamwork — proven ability to coordinate across multiple teams
• Effective asynchronous and remote communication

Nice-to-Haves

• Proficiency in Python — including advanced topics: multithreading, async, networking, OS internals (the current codebase is predominantly Python)
• Published research or experience validating engineering hypotheses through experiments
• Data analysis skills — representing results, building metrics
• Basic knowledge of C (ability to read a small C diff and reason about its impact)
• Experience mentoring junior engineers

Why Join Us

You'll work at the intersection of AI and critical software infrastructure — Linux security patching at massive scale. We're building a team where AI-first development is the norm, not an experiment. You'll be empowered to own your work end-to-end, ship fast, and push the boundary of what a single engineer can deliver when AI agents are part of the workflow.

Benefits

What's in it for you?

• A strong focus on professional development with opportunities for learning and growth:
• Interesting and challenging projects,
• Mentor and other knowledge-exchange programs.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves to ensure you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent, fostering a culture of creativity and innovation.

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