Mendral

AI DevOps Engineer

Founding Engineer

$180K - $220KSan Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Go, TypeScript, Docker
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Sam Alba
Sam Alba
Founder

About the role

Mendral is an AI DevOps agent. We autonomously diagnose CI failures, fix flaky tests, and open fix PRs, so engineering teams get self-healing pipelines instead of broken builds and wasted time.

We're looking for our first full-time engineer who thinks and operates like a co-founder. Someone who understands what we're building, why it matters, and can make high-quality technical decisions without waiting for direction.

You will own large surface areas of the product and infrastructure. You will ship fast. You will make architectural choices that compound. The expectation is not to write every line of code yourself. It's to make the right calls on what gets built, how, and why.

What we're looking for:

  • Builder mindset. You've shipped real products, not just features. You've made hard tradeoffs with incomplete information and lived with the consequences.
  • AI-native workflow. You actively use AI coding agents for your daily work. You understand prompt engineering, context management, and running multiple agent instances in parallel. You don't just use AI. You know how to get leverage from it.
  • Taste over volume. We care more about architecture decisions, system design, and technical judgment than lines of code.
  • CI/CD and infrastructure fluency. Real experience with GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
  • High agency. You enjoy high-level of autonomy and you know how to use it.

About Mendral

Mendral is an AI DevOps agent that autonomously diagnoses CI failures, fixes flaky tests, and opens fix PRs. We make CI green and fast, so engineers stop wasting time on broken builds and keep on shipping.

AI-generated code is increasing volume faster than traditional CI infrastructure can handle. CI was built for humans. The volume of code being shipped today requires a new layer of automation. Mendral is that layer.

We're two engineers who spent the last decade building developer infrastructure. Sam was Docker's first hire and VP of Engineering, scaling the team from 3 to 100+. Andrea authored Docker's first commit. We co-founded Dagger (YC W19) with Solomon Hykes, then started Mendral (YC W26) to solve the reliability problem we kept hitting across every team we worked with.

We have paying customers, real commercial traction, and moving fast.

Our mission is to make software delivery self-healing.

Mendral
Founded:2025
Batch:W26
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Founders
Sam Alba
Sam Alba
Founder
Andrea Luzzardi
Andrea Luzzardi
Founder