Founding Platform Engineer

About Omni Octa Most 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 Build As 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 tools Event ingestion and normalization pipelines that transform engineering activity into regulatory signals The workflow engine that turns detected events into reviews, approvals, CAPAs, risk updates, and other compliance actions A compliance state machine where every transition is explicit, traceable, and auditable Cryptographically verifiable audit trails that customers can rely on during inspections and regulatory submissions Customer-facing dashboards and workflow interfaces Core services supporting our regulatory knowledge graph and orchestration platform Infrastructure that is reliable, explainable, and built for regulated environments What Success Looks Like Within your first year, you'll help deliver: A production platform running with our pilot customers Live integrations with major engineering systems Compliance workflows operating in real-world environments Automated audit-ready evidence generation Technical foundations that will shape the future of the company About You We'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 software Understand distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and long-running workflows Think about reliability, consistency, observability, retries, and failure handling as part of everyday engineering Have strong Python skills and solid database fundamentals Enjoy working across backend, infrastructure, and product Are comfortable making decisions in fast-moving environments Like talking with customers and turning real problems into elegant software Enjoy taking ownership and making things happen Nice to Have Experience in regulated industries such as medical devices, healthcare, aerospace, finance, or cybersecurity Experience building workflow engines or orchestration platforms Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j Experience building AI-enabled products Our Technology Stack Python • FastAPI • PostgreSQL • Neo4j • AWS • React • TypeScript • LLM infrastructure Our stack will continue to evolve, and you'll play a major role in deciding where it goes. What We Offer A competitive salary Meaningful founding equity Real ownership from day one Direct access to customers and product decisions The opportunity to help build a new category of enterprise software A small, experienced team where your work will have immediate impact How to Apply No cover letter needed. Instead, send us a short note telling us: About a software system you're proud of building What went wrong along the way What you'd do differently today We'd love to hear your story.