What You'll Do- Collaborate with engineers to architect and implement high-performance services that are durable and reliable
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and production on-call rotation
- Work together with the team to resolve production issues and ensure system scalability
- Conduct data analysis, performance monitoring, and system optimization through benchmarking/profiling.
- Work independently to drive experiments and solutions for business needs
- Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs for communicating between services in a large distributed system
- Design schemas for relational and non-relational databases
What You'll Bring:- 8+ years of experience working as a software engineer
- Experience operating reliable production systems at scale
- Experience writing high-performance code in a compiled language such as Rust, C/C++, or Golang
- Ability to reason about how data flows through distributed systems
- Experience using LLM-powered coding tools, such as Claude, to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance engineering workflows.
- Bias towards automating the boring stuff
We value a variety of experiences, and these are not required. It would be a added bonus if you have experience in any of the following: - Experience with any of Redis, Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, gRPC
- Experience profiling applications to improve performance in terms of time/CPU/memory
- Experience debugging issues in distributed systems
The New York and California base salary for this full time position is between $200,000 to $220,000. Your exact starting salary is determined by a number of factors such as your experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition to base salary, we also offer a competitive equity program and comprehensive and inclusive benefits.
Qualities we look for:- Friendliness & Empathy
- Accountability & Collaboration
- Proactiveness & Urgency
- Growth Mindset & Love of Learning
