over 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement solutions in the queueing, state-store, and execution layers.
- Improve throughput and latency at hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second.
- Contribute to systems architecture and infrastructure changes as the company grows.
- Expose internal data through metrics stores, APIs, and customer dashboards.
- Design APIs with backend engineers for the cloud dashboard, development server, and command-line interfaces.
- Use the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, and integrations.
- Communicate with users through GitHub, email, and Discord.
- Write technical specifications and user documentation.
- Ship significant changes to Inngest’s open-source project and cloud platform within the first 90 days.
Requirements
- Several years of experience working with distributed systems.
- At least two years of professional experience with Go or similar statically typed languages.
- Experience architecting or contributing to systems that handle significant scale.
- Ability to evaluate engineering trade-offs and make sound technical decisions.
- Understanding of how to observe, monitor, and maintain designed systems.
- Appreciation for simplicity in system design and implementation.
- Strong product mindset and interest in developer tools.
- Bonus: experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC2, ISO27001, or HIPAA.
- Bonus: networking knowledge and experience managing and maintaining systems, including SRE-related experience.
Benefits
- Work time overlap with US Pacific Time is required.
- The role may be based anywhere in the United States for strong candidates, with preference for the San Francisco Bay Area.
- The San Francisco systems engineering team works in person several days per week.
- Opportunity to work on open-source projects and a cloud platform impacting millions of developers.
Tech Stack
About Inngest
Inngest is agent infrastructure that lives in your codebase. Write your logic as functions that automate retries, control flow, and unlock full observability—with zero extra infrastructure. When things break, see exactly what happened, and pick up exactly where you left off. No workers, no queues, no thinking about how your code breaks. Whether you're building AI agents, background jobs, or event-driven workflows—Inngest makes any code durable and observable by default.