Technical Co-Founder / CTO

Dunetrace is looking for a Technical Co-Founder / CTO to join us in building the infrastructure layer for reliable AI agents.

AI agents are rapidly moving from prototypes into production. As they become more autonomous, companies need new infrastructure to understand what agents are doing, detect failures, enforce policies, and automatically recover from problems.

Dunetrace is a VC-backed, Berlin-based, open-source startup focused on runtime reliability, and control for AI agents. We’re building technology that helps developers detect, understand, prevent, and fix agent failures in production.

The Role

As Technical Co-Founder / CTO, you will be a core technical leader of Dunetrace and will have significant ownership over our technology, architecture, product, and engineering direction.

This is a hands-on founding role. We’re looking for someone who wants to build the product and the engineering organization from the ground up.

You will work closely with the founder and customers to determine what we build, how we build it, and where Dunetrace can establish a significant technical advantage.

Tasks

Own the overall technical vision and architecture of Dunetrace

Build and ship core product and infrastructure

Design scalable systems for AI agent reliability, and runtime control

Work on areas including agent execution, telemetry, evaluation, detection, policies, and automated remediation

Make key decisions around architecture, infrastructure, APIs, developer experience, and security

Work closely with early customers and translate their problems into product and technical solutions

Help shape the open-source project and developer community

Recruit and build the engineering team as the company grows

Help define Dunetrace's long-term technical strategy and roadmap

Requirements

Strong software engineering background with experience building production systems

Deep understanding of backend systems, distributed systems, APIs, and infrastructure

Strong coding ability and a willingness to remain hands-on

Experience taking products from early-stage development to production

Strong technical judgment and ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions

High ownership and comfort operating in an early-stage startup environment

Genuine interest in AI agents and the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure ecosystem

Candidates should be based in Germany or willing to relocate to Germany. Previous founder/co-founder or early-stage startup experience is strongly preferred.

Experience with one or more of the following is a strong plus:

AI agents and agentic frameworks

AI/LLM observability

Distributed systems and developer infrastructure

OpenTelemetry or related observability technologies

Benefits

Significant co-founder equity with vesting

Competitive salary, based on experience

Full ownership of technical direction

Remote-first working environment in Germany

If you're excited about building the infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable in production, we'd love to hear from you.

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