Senior Systems Engineer, Database
Antithesis2 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve Pangolin, a tree-native streaming analytical database handling terabytes of customer data daily.
- Work with internal customers, including the notebook/UI team, to define priorities, shape the roadmap, and deliver data exploration features.
- Collaborate with the Infrastructure team on deployment, reliability, and scale.
- Write design documents and contribute to the system’s long-term technical direction.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Rust and the ability to write safe, performant, idiomatic code.
- Deep systems programming fundamentals, including memory, concurrency, and performance.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
- Strong backend engineering experience, including work on or alongside database systems.
- Ability to work directly with internal customers, translate ambiguous requirements into priorities, and own delivery.
- Experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale distributed backend systems is a bonus.
- Deep performance optimization experience is a bonus.
- Linux internals experience is a bonus.
- V8 experience is a bonus.
- AWS experience, including S3 and Lambda, is a bonus.
Benefits
- This position requires working in person five days per week.
- The role is located in Vienna, Virginia, or San Francisco, California.
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About Antithesis
Antithesis builds a deterministic simulation and autonomous testing platform for software teams building complex systems. It runs full-stack services in a controlled environment, injects faults and toxic inputs, and produces reproducible bug reports with root-cause analysis, integrating into CI and developer workflows. The company is privately held and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, and sells its platform and expert engineering services to enterprises that need faster, more reliable releases.