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Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers

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Why This Matters

Proliferate's innovative approach to automating and enhancing software engineering with AI agents has the potential to significantly boost productivity and collaboration within engineering teams. This development is crucial for the tech industry as it pushes the boundaries of how humans and AI can work together to create better, faster, and more reliable software. For consumers, this could mean more efficient software updates, improved product quality, and faster deployment cycles.

Key Takeaways

About Proliferate

Proliferate is building the operating system for modern engineering: a workspace where engineers and coding agents work side by side.

Our mission is to automate software engineering in a way that makes engineering more human, not less. We believe the best future is not “agents replacing engineers,” but engineers with dramatically better leverage: agents that can take action, stay in context, work in realistic environments, and collaborate closely with the people responsible for shipping.

Proliferate gives teams a shared environment where agents, engineers, and operators can build together. Agents can respond to real engineering signals from tools like GitHub, Linear, and Sentry, work in sandboxed environments that mirror production, and verify their own changes before anything ships.

We are building the company in person in SoMa, San Francisco. We care a lot about intensity, craft, and working with people who want to do the best work of their careers. We work hard, and we also take health seriously: company-expensed Whoop, meaningful health and wellness budget, and top-tier insurance.

About the Role

You’d be one of our first engineering hires, working directly with me to build the core product. This is a high-ownership role across product, systems, and user experience.

Example projects:

Build a new core workflow end to end across agent runtime, product UI, and cloud infrastructure.

Design and ship a new interface for human-agent collaboration made possible by a model capability that landed last week.

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