1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Convex's global cloud infrastructure.
- Investigate and improve system performance and reliability.
- Prioritize projects independently in collaboration with the engineering team and CTO.
- Establish reliability guidelines and good operational practices as the team and systems scale.
- Write systems and database code.
- Participate in on-call support and troubleshoot complex production issues when needed.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience building and operating infrastructure with deep knowledge of systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of systems design, operational practices, and service management.
- Experience scaling systems in a high-growth startup environment.
- Ability to write high-quality code; Rust knowledge is a plus.
- Experience with user-facing live-site services and OLTP databases is valued over OLAP or offline systems.
- Interest in working in person at Convex's San Francisco office.
- Ability to think deeply about architecture, long-term implications, simplicity, and pragmatism.
- Willingness to participate in on-call work and respond to occasional production incidents.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are provided.
- The role is full-time and based in-person at Convex's San Francisco office.
- The role includes on-call responsibilities, including occasional nighttime pages.
About Convex
Convex builds an open-source reactive database and full-stack backend platform for web app developers, combining data, compute, and real-time sync. It offers a managed cloud service and supports self-hosting, letting teams ship apps without standing up separate databases, APIs, or servers. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, this privately held company focuses on dynamic web applications and agent-driven workloads.