Founding Platform Engineer
On-site · San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
As a Founding Platform Engineer, you will design and own the semantic layer that powers the system of record, creating internal platforms that other product teams use as building blocks. You will partner with teams to understand their needs and architect systems that integrate diverse data and request topologies, balancing latency, throughput, consistency, and access patterns. Your role requires a deep understanding of distributed systems, a robust background in data systems, and an ownership mentality focused on long-term outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years building and operating distributed systems
- Deep understanding of data warehouses, transactional databases, and other storage systems
- Ability to design schemas, contracts, and semantic models that remain stable over time
- Take responsibility for long-term outcomes, not just shipping code.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with observability, migrations, backfills, incident response, and running high-uptime systems that are hard to unwind once in production.
- Experience owning a platform or core abstraction used by multiple teams.
Additional Requirements
- All roles are in person.
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