About the role
Role
As a founding engineer, you’ll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You’ll have significant influence over the technical and product direction.
We’ll expect you to be able to:
- Be oncall for a production system to help our customers if anything goes wrong.
- Build out never-before-seen capabilities in a storage service
- Design distributed systems interactions for atomicity and idempotency
- Deploy infrastructure and generalize infrastructure across different clouds
- Operate through changing customer requirements with lots of ambiguity
Who are you?
- You have 3+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems (flexible).
- Ideally, you’ve worked at a startup before, so you know how chaotic this time can be.
- You’ve successfully resolved disagreements at work before, and you understand that the highest priority is helping our customers — not being right.
- You’re comfortable debugging problems that occur as a result of failures in multiple, different systems, using tools like metrics and logs.
- You’ve been paged at 3am to solve a complex production issue before.
- You’re knowledgeable about distributed systems: you get how consensus works, you know how to scale systems, and you know what pitfalls in API design to avoid.
- You’re familiar with how to optimize the performance of a system, including a general sense of how much latency different operations take, and what kind of bottlenecks could lead to a reduction in potential throughput.
- Most of all, you know how computers work from the silicon up. Someone once asked you in an interview “what happens when you go to Google.com”, and there wasn’t enough time in the interview to talk about all of the steps.
