Senior Software Engineer

Artie · San Francisco, CA · Yesterday

RemoteRemoteEngineering$150k–$250k/yrFull-time

About the role

We are a small team based in San Francisco looking to hire an engineer that has a dedicated focus around distributed systems. As a founding engineer, you will have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, directly interact with our customers and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our product. This is a challenging and dynamic role and you will be working at the forefront of data engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure.

What you should expect & examples of day-to-day tasks

Building column encryption
Launching our analytics portal and schema change alerts
Building tooling to streamline and automate infrastructure workloads
Introducing pipeline efficiencies by making tradeoffs between virtual memory and disk
Building native change data capture (CDC) connectors to data sources that we do not yet support

What we are looking for

Strong fundamentals in computer science
Pragmatic and care more about building the right thing vs. being right
Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
Someone that wants to take an active role in defining the next gen data platform that utilizes stream processing and CDC to drive data latency to zero, while also focusing on ease-of-use and extensibility
Past experience working on scaling async systems and exposure to topics like gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Helm is preferred but not required
Proficiency writing in Go is preferred, but not necessary

Tech stack

Frontend: TypeScript (React and Material UI)
Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
Infra: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm on GCP and AWS

Compensation & Benefits