The RoleWe're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team to create high quality products with great UX in record time. A strong candidate will have:
- Specific familiarity in one or more systems languages like Rust, C/C++, GO, and/or Swift.
- General familiarity with databases, database internals, distributed systems, data pipelines/warehouses.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced and low process environment.
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development, with an emphasis on backend technologies.
Our Tech StackTalented engineers can pick up new languages and frameworks quickly. Here's what our tech stack looks like today, but if you come with a better way of doing things we're flexible and committed to building the best tools for our customers no matter what!
- We use Rust throughout the backend, giving us extremely fast performance with strong security guarantees.
- Our frontend is written using Svelte and TypeScript.
- Our query system leverages highly burstable compute provided by serverless components like Amazon Lambdas.
- We use S3 to store logs at scale and MySQL to store metadata.
- Our log ingestion pipeline runs in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- We use infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi to manage our deployments and cloud infrastructure.
Why you'll love working here- Impact & ownership: Join a small, high-trust team where your work directly impacts our users.
- Ambitious product: We solve hard problems with massive scale log search, threat hunting, and observability for cloud-native infrastructure.
- Fast-paced team & culture: We're lean, collaborative and high-velocity.
- Growth & autonomy: We trust you to take major ownership, give you the space to grow, and we'll support your professional development.
Compensation & BenefitsCompetitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, commuter). Hybrid-friendly with regular in-person collaboration in San Francisco.
