Founding Platform Engineer

About Omni OctaMost compliance software is built around documents.We believe compliance should be built around reality.Every day, engineering teams make design changes, merge code, update requirements, close tickets, modify risks, approve tests, and release software. Traditional compliance systems often discover these changes weeks or months later, forcing teams into manual documentation, compliance catch-up, and audit preparation.We're building something different.Omni Octa is creating the AI-native compliance orchestration platform for regulated engineering.Instead of asking people to manually keep systems in sync, our platform continuously understands what's happening across engineering, determines the regulatory impact, orchestrates the right actions, and keeps compliance up to date automatically.We're starting in medical devices—a field where our founders have personally taken products through FDA clearance and EU MDR certification—but our ambition is much bigger. We believe every regulated engineering team deserves software that works with them instead of creating more work.We're working closely with our first design partners and are now looking for one of our first engineers to help build the company from the ground up.If you enjoy solving hard technical problems, building products from scratch, and having a real say in how a company evolves, we'd love to talk.What You'll BuildAs one of our first engineers, you'll help shape the core of the platform, including:Integrations with Jira, GitHub, document management systems, eQMS platforms, and other engineering toolsEvent ingestion and normalization pipelines that transform engineering activity into regulatory signalsThe workflow engine that turns detected events into reviews, approvals, CAPAs, risk updates, and other compliance actionsA compliance state machine where every transition is explicit, traceable, and auditableCryptographically verifiable audit trails that customers can rely on during inspections and regulatory submissionsCustomer-facing dashboards and workflow interfacesCore services supporting our regulatory knowledge graph and orchestration platformInfrastructure that is reliable, explainable, and built for regulated environmentsWhat Success Looks LikeWithin your first year, you'll help deliver:A production platform running with our pilot customersLive integrations with major engineering systemsCompliance workflows operating in real-world environmentsAutomated audit-ready evidence generationTechnical foundations that will shape the future of the companyAbout YouWe're not looking for someone who ticks every box. If you're excited by the mission and enjoy building ambitious products, we'd love to hear from you.Ideally, you:Have built and operated production softwareUnderstand distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and long-running workflowsThink about reliability, consistency, observability, retries, and failure handling as part of everyday engineeringHave strong Python skills and solid database fundamentalsEnjoy working across backend, infrastructure, and productAre comfortable making decisions in fast-moving environmentsLike talking with customers and turning real problems into elegant softwareEnjoy taking ownership and making things happenNice to HaveExperience in regulated industries such as medical devices, healthcare, aerospace, finance, or cybersecurityExperience building workflow engines or orchestration platformsFamiliarity with graph databases such as Neo4jExperience building AI-enabled productsOur Technology StackPython • FastAPI • PostgreSQL • Neo4j • AWS • React • TypeScript • LLM infrastructureOur stack will continue to evolve, and you'll play a major role in deciding where it goes.What We OfferA competitive salaryMeaningful founding equityReal ownership from day oneDirect access to customers and product decisionsThe opportunity to help build a new category of enterprise softwareA small, experienced team where your work will have immediate impactHow to ApplyNo cover letter needed.Instead, send us a short note telling us:About a software system you're proud of buildingWhat went wrong along the wayWhat you'd do differently todayWe'd love to hear your story.