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.
That’s what we’re building at Dunetrace.
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.

What you'll do
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

What we're looking for
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.

Particularly relevant experience
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

What we offer?
Significant co-founder equity with vesting
Competitive salary, based on experience
Full ownership of technical direction
Remote-first working environment in Germany

Our Code
Dunetrace is being built in the open.
Explore the code before applying:
https://github.com/dunetrace/dunetrace