Sr. Distributed Systems Engineer

About the role

You’ll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You’ll have significant influence over the technical and product direction.

Responsibilities

• Build out never-before-seen capabilities in a storage service
• Design distributed systems interactions for atomicity and idempotency
• Deploy infrastructure and generalize infrastructure across different clouds
• Operate through changing customer requirements with lots of ambiguity
• Lead teams of engineers through complex decisions and PR feedback

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating distributed systems (flexible)
• Experience working at a startup (flexible)
• Successfully resolved disagreements at work before
• Comfortable debugging problems that occur as a result of failures in multiple, different systems
• Familiar with how to optimize the performance of a system
• Knowledgeable about distributed systems: how consensus works, how to scale systems, and what pitfalls in API design to avoid

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience working at a startup
• Successfully resolved disagreements at work
• Comfortable debugging complex production issues
• Knowledgeable about distributed systems
• Familiar with optimizing system performance

Skills

• Understanding of distributed systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure
• Ability to debug and resolve complex production issues
• Experience leading engineering teams

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the future of cloud storage
• Flexible work schedule
• Competitive compensation package
• Work in a fully in-person environment in San Francisco

Pay

Competitive compensation package

Schedule

Full-time, remote option available

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development opportunities

How to join

Show us that you’re knowledgeable about the space that we’re working in on your application. One potential way is by answering one of the following questions:

• How do you think our system works?
• What do you think our biggest technical challenge is?
• What would make our system not work?