Founding Staff Engineer

Outpost is an AI-native marketing company focused on helping brands build trusted visibility and communities on Reddit. The Founding Staff Engineer will be the first full-time engineer working on the product, owning end-to-end full-stack development, production LLM systems, cloud infrastructure, data, and deployments. The role will build internal delivery tools and customer-facing product capabilities for monitoring, drafting, quality checks, reporting, and marketing operations.

Responsibilities:

• First, it supports our delivery. As an agency, every hour a person spends on a client is a real cost, and the product aims to reduce it. It surfaces only the threads worth acting on, learns a subreddit's culture and drafts in the brand's voice. It includes quality checks before anything goes live and provides operational tooling for marketers running the accounts. Every bit of leverage you build here improves our margin and increases how many clients one person can handle
• Second, it is the product our customers use directly. Today customers see only reporting, but they should see the entire channel: what buyers are saying about them, where they stand against competitors, which threads moved their search positions and AI citations, and what to do next. This is the piece that turns an agency into a company with a product