Gray runs on the user's own box — their keys, their data, nothing sent to us. That promise is an engineering problem: a self-hosted daemon that installs in minutes, updates itself safely, and never loses a session. You will own it.
What you will own
Own the self-hosted runtime: install, update, recovery, observability
Make setup feel guided — scan a code, paste a tailnet URL, connected
Build the device-to-box transport: tailnets, NAT traversal, reconnection
Keep the daemon honest on small machines — a Raspberry Pi is a valid prod box
Write the docs operators actually read: short, exact, copy-pasteable
What you bring
Deep Linux fluency — systemd, networking, containers, the unglamorous parts
You've shipped self-hosted or on-prem software and supported it
Go or Rust in production
Empathy for the person at 2am with a broken box
Nice to have
Tailscale/WireGuard experience
You maintain a self-hosted stack at home
Packaging for many distros without crying
What we offer
Meaningful equity. Every role carries a real stake in Layer Gray, with a 10-year exercise window.
Remote, worldwide. Work from anywhere. We hire for the role, not the time zone.
Hardware budget. $4,000 for your machines, plus a home server allowance — you should run Gray on your own box.
Flexible time off. 25 days minimum, and we mean minimum. We track outcomes, not hours.
Health covered. Full medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents, wherever you are.
Two offsites a year. The whole crew, one room, twice a year. The rest of the time, async.
Model subscriptions. Claude, GPT, and friends — every frontier model subscription, paid.
Learning budget. $2,000 a year for books, courses, and conferences. No approval theatre.
About Gray
Gray is voice-first AI you operate like a terminal. You speak; it runs real work across your machines — SSH sessions, multi-agent jobs, files, scheduled tasks — then speaks back. It is self-hosted, private by architecture, and built for the people who run the internet’s plumbing. Gray is made by Layer Gray, Inc.