Founding Engineer

Dokploy is one of the world's most popular open-source PaaS platforms, with 34k+ GitHub stars. We are a fast growing company, serving over 1200 paying customers worldwide. 

Years of experience: 5+ years in software development

Location: Central or South America

What we're looking for: 

• TypeScript/Node.js/Golang depth 
• Kubernetes/Docker Swarm/Docker Compose expertise 
• Prior experience building auth/security features for multi-tenant systems
• Enjoys interacting with customers on a regular basis
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Based in Central or South America (timezone overlap matters)

Responsibilities: 

• Work directly with the founder to architect and ship features across the full stack (TypeScript, tRPC, Next.js, Docker, Traefik)
• Write clean, well-documented code and contribute to internal engineering standards as the team grows
• Join sales calls when needed 
• Help with customer support
• Help with developer relations. Working in Discord and other online forums to interact with the community and ensure positive experiences for our users.
• Improve platform reliability: high availability, multi-node failover, observability, and incident response
• Own the deployment pipeline and background job infrastructure (BullMQ, Redis) for stability at scale
• Design and build enterprise-grade features including fine-grained RBAC, audit logging, SSO/SAML integrations, and compliance tooling
• Lead Kubernetes support — designing how Dokploy deploys onto and manages K8s clusters for enterprise customers

Open Source Background:

• Has contributed to relevant open source projects — merged PRs, active issues, or own projects with GitHub traction
• Understands OSS community dynamics: how to balance open vs. proprietary, communicate with contributors, and work in public
• prior experience with infra/DevOps OSS projects (Dokploy, Coolify, CapRover, Portainer, or similar)

Why this role:

• Direct impact: every feature you ship is used by thousands of developers within days
• Work with a founder who codes, not a manager who delegates
• Build something developers actually love — check our GitHub and Discord