Founding Platform Engineer

Converge; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Converge is seeking a founding engineer to own and build the data platform. You’ll join a small team in NYC and be the first to fully own and scale the platform layer, handling trillions of jobs and real-time queries.

You’ll write performant code (Python), dive deep into infra, and partner with product engineers to ship products that scale to the world’s largest brands. Expect hands-on coding and rapid iteration in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven strong coding skills in Python and performance-critical languages.
• Deep understanding of OLTP/OLAP databases.
• Experience with data-heavy, scalable systems.
• Customer-minded mindset to build usable data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the roadmap for the data platform.
• Deep-dive into infra and systems challenges at scale.
• Collaborate with product engineers to ship scalable data services.
• Build services capable of ingesting massive job volumes and real-time queries.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Database internals

Performance optimization

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Job description

We’re looking for a founding engineer to own and build out the data platform powering Converge.
Right Now We Are Just 3 Product Engineers And Already Operate Systems Most Companies Don’t Touch Until Much Later. You’ll Be The First Engineer To Fully Own And Scale The Platform Layer

• Handling $4 billion in annual revenue
• Ingesting 20 TB every month
• Processing 5 billion jobs every month
• 6000 jobs / s at peak
• Queries join, window, and aggregate up to 100M rows (100GB) in seconds, fully real-time.

This is not a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role. You will:

• Drive your own roadmap
• Go super deep on the hardest infra and systems problems
• Work with product engineers to ship product that scales to the world’s largest consumer brands.

Some Examples Of What You’ll Be Working On

• Build out services that can ingest up to a trillion jobs / month
• Stare at esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs
• Figure out how to materialize our attribution dataset to scale to join, window, and aggregate billions of rows in realtime
• Build a SQL dialect for our customers (or agents) to directly query the data in Converge

This role is NOT for you if

• You prefer to architect systems over building them. You will implement everything you design. Expect to be coding, a lot.
• You want to own "big tech" style, multi-quarter migrations. We work with daily and weekly timelines.
• You prefer working remote over in-person. We all love working from our NYC office.

What we’re looking for

• Very strong coding skills (we mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages)
• Deep understanding of databases (OLTP & OLAP) (we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)
• Experience at scale (you’ve seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems)
• You’re pragmatic and customer-minded. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’s not needed.