5 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$160k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and ship core infrastructure components covering query execution, graph storage, and distributed systems.
- Make architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
- Contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the technical category.
- Participate in architecture reviews and resolve difficult technical trade-offs with production consequences.
- Help raise the technical ceiling as the team scales.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant engineering experience with strong computer science fundamentals and a first-principles approach to problem-solving.
- Proficiency in Rust or Go, or a strong drive to develop deep expertise in either language.
- Hands-on experience designing and shipping core infrastructure such as query engines, storage layers, or graph internals in production.
- Ability to own large, ambiguous problems and contribute to design documents and architecture decisions in an early-stage environment.
- Experience building or scaling distributed systems, databases, or storage infrastructure is a plus.
- Open-source contributions to systems-level projects are a plus.
- Prior founding engineer or early-stage infrastructure experience is a plus.
Benefits
- $160,000 to $270,000 USD annual base salary plus meaningful equity.
- Learning budget.
- Flexible PTO.
- Wellness program.
- On-site work in San Francisco, California.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.