Senior Software Engineer

About the role

We are a small team based in San Francisco looking to hire a founding 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.

Responsibilities

• Building column encryption
• Lanuching 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

Requirements

• 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
• Happy to work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco’s Financial District with the rest of the team

Qualifications

• Experience with frontend technologies such as TypeScript (React and Material UI)
• Experience with backend technologies such as Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
• Experience with infrastructure technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm on GCP and AWS

Skills

• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with change data capture (CDC) and stream processing
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP and AWS)

Benefits

Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.

Pay

$150K - $250K

Schedule

Full-time