Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Austin, TX

Build and launch core products from zero to one, make foundational architecture decisions, work across the technology stack, and partner closely with founders and customers. The role involves solving ambiguous technical and product challenges, establishing engineering practices, and helping hire and grow the future engineering organization at early-stage, venture-backed companies.

Build and improve security across applications, cloud infrastructure, internal systems, and products. Responsibilities include identifying and remediating risks, developing security tooling and automation, conducting architecture reviews and threat modeling, integrating security into the software development lifecycle, strengthening identity and access controls, and developing monitoring, vulnerability management, detection, and incident response capabilities.

Forward Deployed Engineers partner with customers to understand technical and business challenges, then design, build, deploy, and debug software solutions. Responsibilities include developing integrations, applications, APIs, data pipelines, and reusable infrastructure; collaborating across engineering, product, sales, and customer teams; supporting implementation and adoption; and translating recurring customer needs into product insights. The role requires strong software engineering, problem-solving, communication, adaptability, and customer-facing skills.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud and production infrastructure for venture-backed technology companies. Responsibilities include improving reliability and performance, developing internal platforms, maintaining CI/CD and observability systems, automating infrastructure provisioning, and partnering with engineering and security teams to solve scaling challenges.

Senior individual-contributor recruiter who owns end-to-end technical searches and client relationships: strategy, sourcing, screening, closing. Partners with founders/CTOs on hiring plans and interview design, builds AI-driven sourcing and automation, runs data-informed experiments, and improves workflows to deliver high-quality senior and staff+ technical hires across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Security.

Research and identify technical candidates using sourcing tools, build diverse talent pipelines, conduct personalized outreach and initial screens, research markets and companies, test sourcing strategies, and collaborate with recruiters. The role requires strong research, communication, organization, basic understanding of technical roles, and independent remote work. It is a six-month independent contractor position with potential extension or conversion.

Lead full-cycle technical recruiting searches for PCT clients, partnering with founders and senior technical leaders. Build structured interview processes, conduct talent mapping and competitive analysis, develop innovative sourcing strategies, assess senior and staff-level technical candidates, and track pipeline metrics. Manage multiple searches autonomously while collaborating with technical sourcers and using recruiting technology and AI tools to improve outcomes.

Submit a general application if interested in joining a venture-backed company, detailing your ideal role, experience, and preferences.