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About DayDream

We help dentists get paid for the work they do. In this $165B market, our product simplifies the complex process of verifying insurance coverage, submitting claims, appealing denials, billing patients, and maintaining clean books. As a result of how complex this process is and how many things get lost in the process, dentists can lose 10–20% of their revenue!

What this leads to is the thing patients hate about the American healthcare system: it’s inefficient, unaffordable, and just too d*mn confusing. We work with a lot of dentists and they don’t love it either. Dentists want to treat you, help you, and see you smile.

We believe that by automating parts of revenue cycle management, we increase financial transparency for everyone involved—patients, providers—and help support small business owner dentists across America.

The Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who’s obsessed with building fast, reliable, and secure systems—and giving product engineers the tools they need to ship with confidence. You’ll be the backbone of our infra, observability, and deployment pipeline, owning everything from monitoring and alerting to networking, security, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own our observability stack (Datadog) and ensure our systems are monitored, alerting, and self-healing

• Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (we use AWS)

• Define and evolve our networking, access control, and security posture

• Improve and manage CI/CD pipelines to help us ship safely and frequently

• Design and scale internal tooling that helps engineers move faster

• Set up and manage robust data infra to support product and analytics use cases

• Drive incident response, on-call rotation, and postmortem culture

Requirements

• Experience with observability tooling (especially Datadog), and a strong intuition for what to measure.

• Deep comfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Terraform, and containerized environments

• Strong understanding of networking, IAM, and system-level security

• Experience setting up and managing CI/CD systems (we use GitHub Actions)

• Familiarity with data infra: warehouses, pipelines, monitoring, etc.

• In-person in San Francisco, 5 days a week

Signs You’re a Good Fit

• You've been the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup

• You’ve built tools that made other engineers 10x more productive

• You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure, but you’re pragmatic about tradeoffs

Team

Anton Lin, Co-Founder, CTO

• Formerly co-founded Scout; scaled to $1M ARR before exit to StockX

• Built and grew several SaaS businesses to 7 figures in revenue

• UC Berkeley dropout (3 weeks!)

Shreyas Parab, Co-Founder, CEO

• Formerly first employee at YC W23 startup, Special Projects for billionaire Dan Gilbert

• Started and grew D2C brand to $75k/year, started/sold ed-tech company

• Senior Class President at Stanford, student representative on the Board of Trustees

• Stanford Biomedical Computation

We've raised $6.5M from 8VC and Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross through AI Grant.

Nat Friedman: Former GitHub CEO, helped launch GitHub CoPilot. Investor in Figma, Stripe, Retool, Scale AI, Vercel, Perplexity, and more.
Daniel Gross: Youngest partner at YC, Times 100 Most Influential People in AI. Investor in Instacart, Coinbase, Airtable, Rippling, Notion, Character.ai.