Founding Engineer Senior - Backend
About the job
- At least 7 years of experience building production backend systems from concept through scaled deployment.
- Expert-level Python skills and significant production experience with FastAPI.
- Deep PostgreSQL proficiency, including complex queries, optimization, schema design, and performance tuning.
- Production experience using Redis for caching, session management, and real-time data.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
- A proven track record implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and deployment automation.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools and maintaining system reliability.
- Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction in ambiguous early-stage situations.
- Strong system design, security, and operational excellence skills.
- Architect and build core backend infrastructure using Python and FastAPI.
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL databases for production workloads at scale.
- Build complex workflow orchestration systems for agentic services and automation.
- Implement caching strategies with Redis for high-performance data access.
- Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Create and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for rapid, reliable deployments.
- Containerize services with Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes.
- Work independently with minimal direction in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
- Establish engineering standards, security practices, and technical culture.
- Own systems end-to-end from design through deployment, scaling, and incident response.
- Backend infrastructure experience for artificial intelligence or machine learning applications or agentic systems.
- Experience building workflow products or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Experience managing headless browsers such as Playwright or Puppeteer at scale in production.
- Experience with Neo4j or other graph databases for complex relationship modeling.
- A track record of scaling systems from hundreds to millions of requests.
- Previous startup experience shipping rapidly and iterating based on feedback.
About the company
Cenna is an enterprise IT automation platform that unifies IT service management and IT operations through agent-powered automation and real-time orchestration. It replaces ticket-based workflows with autonomous agents that perform tasks across infrastructure, security, and compliance, and it provides end-to-end automation plus real-time performance insights. The platform uses lightweight multi-agent systems and domain-specific language models to learn from interactions and build an evolving organizational knowledge graph, supporting containerized deployment and security tool integrations. Its goal is to help enterprise IT teams operate more efficiently by automating manual tasks and delivering proactive visibility for IT service delivery.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2025
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 site claims SOC 2 Type II and trust-center controls.
- AWS Marketplace exposure in 2026 expands enterprise distribution and procurement credibility.
- The company targets IT, HR, legal, and support, widening revenue per customer.
What critics are saying
- Cenna launched in 2025, so product-market fit remains unproven versus ServiceNow.
- LinkedIn hiring for founding engineers in Hyderabad signals a tiny, still-building team.
- If enterprises reject vendor-run agents, Cenna becomes a feature inside incumbents.
What makes Cenna Systems unique
- 2026 site sells prebuilt agentic apps running inside customer cloud accounts.
- Cenna records every agent action and offers SSO, budgets, and audit logs.
- AWS Marketplace listing touts browser agents, knowledge graph, and containerized deployment.
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