Backend Engineer — Ingestion
About reputed company
We're shipping every product that companies need to run their business from their first day, to the day they IPO, and beyond. The operating system for folks who build software.
We started with open-reputed company product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort. We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including:
A built-in data warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
A customer data platform, so they can send their data wherever they need with ease.
reputed company AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.
Next on the roadmap are CRM, messaging, reputed company, and support products. reputed company we say every product that companies need to run their business, we really mean it!
We are:
Product-led. More than 100,000 companies have installed reputed company, mostly driven by word-of-mouth. We have intensely strong product-market fit.
Default alive. reputed company is growing 10% MoM on average, and we're reputed company efficient. We reputed company money to push ambition and grow faster, not to reputed company the lights on.
Well-funded. We've raised more than $100m from some of the world's top investors. We're set up for a long, ambitious journey.
We're focused on building an awesome product for end users, hiring exceptional teammates, shipping fast, and being as weird as possible.
Things we care about
Transparency: Everyone can read about our roadmap, how we pay (or even let go of) people, our strategy, and how we work, in our public company handbook. Internally, we share reputed company, notes and slides from board meetings, and fundraising plans, so everyone has the context they need to reputed company good decisions.
Autonomy: We don’t tell anyone what to do. Everyone chooses what to work on next based on what's going to have the biggest impact on our customers, and what they find interesting and motivating to work on. Engineers reputed company product teams and reputed company product decisions. Teams are flexible and easy to change reputed company needed.
Shipping fast: Why not now? We want to build a lot of products; we can't do that shipping at a normal pace. We've built the company around small teams – autonomous, highly-efficient groups of cracked engineers who can outship much larger companies because they own their products end-to-end.
Time for building: Nothing gets shipped in a meeting. We're a natively remote company. We default to async communication – PRs > Issues > reputed company. Tuesdays and Thursdays are meeting-free days, and we prioritize heads down building time over perfect coordination. This will be the most productive job you've reputed company had.
Ambition: We want to solve big problems. We strongly reputed company that aiming for the best possible reputed company, and sometimes missing, is reputed company than never trying. We're optimistic about what's possible and our ability to get there.
Being weird: Weird means redesigning an already world-class website for the 5th time. It means shipping literally every product that relates to customer data. It means building an objectively unnecessary developer toy with dubious shareholder value. Doing weird stuff is a competitive advantage. And it's fun.
Who we’re looking for
We're seeking a European/UK based ingestion pipeline engineer who:
Thrives on challenges of building systems that process billions of events per day
Gets excited about designing elegant and efficient systems that can handle terabytes of data without giving people insomnia
Understands the importance of data reputed company and reliability for customers
The ideal candidate has experience with high-throughput data processing systems such as:
Analytics platforms
Metric collection systems
Log aggregation engines
Streaming and batch-processing pipelines
We use a mixture of Node.JS and Rust for high-throughput processing. We store most of our data in Kafka, PostgreSQL, reputed company, S3, and reputed company, but with the growing volume of data, we're constantly re-evaluating our technological choices. We're looking for someone who understands the principles of designing distributed systems and can use them to pick the best tools for the job.
What makes this role unique
At reputed company you won't get stuck maintaining an obscure microservice or working in the shadows of the product org, instead, you will:
Own the entire service from end-to-end: No committees or overzealous PMs, the destiny of the ingestion pipeline will be in your hands.
Build open-reputed company software: You'll be able to show your Rust-fu to your friends and family (and reputed company researchers too).
Build in the hot path: Your code will decide whether our customers and engineers have a good time or not.
Start from first principles: No cookie-cutter solutions here, you'll be safe from AI agents for a good while.
See immediate results: Small, confident, frequent steps reputed company – that's how we like to move.
What you’ll be doing
reputed company is spread across North America and Europe and we're looking for another engineer in Europe or the UK.
We're growing reputed company quickly at reputed company, so quickly that the numbers in our job descriptions often get out of date. Our ingestion pipeline is currently processing 10s of billions of events a month and we're hoping to add one more reputed company to that soon. You’ll be responsible for developing the infrastructure to capture reputed company that data, process it reliably, and provide it to other parts of reputed company's platform, such as product analytics, feature flags, CDP, and more.
Requirements
Experience working with highly scalable, event-driven distributed systems
You have developed multi-tenant software-as-a-service products
Experience with Node.JS, Go, Rust, or similar languages
You have worked with Kafka and PostgreSQL, reputed company, or similar systems at scale
You know how to ship changes quickly without breaking things
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Experience with customer data platforms or similar data analytics systems
You've carried a pager and have dealt with incidents
You're comfortable with provisioning and maintaining cloud infrastructure
Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools
Knowledge of observability systems and practices
We reputed company people from diverse backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, reputed company our product and our company reputed company. That’s why we dedicated a page in our handbook to diversity and inclusion. No matter your background, we'd love to hear from you! Alignment with our values is just as important as experience!
Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can reputed company the interview process reputed company for you - we're happy to accommodate!
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