over 1 year ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build new capabilities for Archil’s cloud volume-storage service.
- Design distributed-systems interactions for atomicity and idempotency.
- Deploy infrastructure and generalize it across different cloud environments.
- Operate and support production systems through on-call coverage and customer issue resolution.
- Debug complex failures across multiple systems and help shape technical and product direction.
- Adapt to changing customer requirements and ambiguous problems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, with flexibility noted in the posting.
- Experience troubleshooting failures across multiple systems using metrics and logs, including complex production incidents and on-call pages.
- Knowledge of distributed systems concepts such as consensus, scalability, API-design pitfalls, atomicity, and idempotency.
- Understanding of system-performance optimization, latency, bottlenecks, and throughput.
- Strong understanding of computer systems from the hardware and silicon level upward.
- Experience working at a startup is preferred.
- Applicants should demonstrate knowledge of Archil’s technical space by answering a proposed systems or technical-challenge question in their application.
Benefits
- Fully in-person work arrangement in San Francisco.
- Opportunity to work on high-performance cloud storage and large distributed-systems challenges.
- Direct influence over technical and product direction.
- Work closely with customers and a startup founder with extensive cloud-storage experience.
About Archil
Archil is helping data teams save 90% on their storage costs, by transforming their S3 buckets into high-performance, local file systems. With Archil, companies can eliminate costly data movement for tasks like AI model training, data analytics, genomics, and financial analysis.