Senior Software Engineer

Voiceflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Voiceflow in San Francisco is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ambitious team. As a founding engineer, you will work on distributed systems and have a significant impact on our product development by interacting directly with customers.

This challenging role requires strong technical fundamentals and a desire to innovate in building a next generation data platform. The ideal candidate has experience in async systems and will work on pioneering projects in our Financial District office.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in computer science.
• Experience in building the right solutions over being right.
• Eagerness to define a next-generation data platform.

Responsibilities

• Building column encryption and launching analytics portal.
• Streamlining and automating infrastructure workloads.
• Improving pipeline efficiencies through tradeoffs.

Skills

Strong fundamentals in computer science

Comfortable jumping around the stack

Experience with async systems

Proficiency in Go

Familiarity with gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Artie

Software that streams data from databases to warehouses in real-time

Senior Software Engineer

$160K - $215K • San Francisco, CA, US

• Job type Full-time
• Role Engineering, Backend
• Experience 3+ years
• Visa Will sponsor

About us

Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams.

Our platform powers mission‑critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer‑facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast.

We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top‑tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.

About the Role

We are a small team based in San Francisco looking to hire a founding engineer that has a dedicated focus around distributed systems. As a founding engineer, you will have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, directly interact with our customers and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our product.

This is a challenging and dynamic role and you will be working at the forefront of data engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure.

Day‑to‑Day Tasks

• Building column encryption, launching our analytics portal and schema change alerts
• Building tooling to streamline and automate infrastructure workloads
• Introducing pipeline efficiencies by making tradeoffs between virtual memory and disk
• Building native change data capture (CDC) connectors to data sources that we do not yet support

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in computer science
• Pragmatic and care more about building the right thing vs. being right
• Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
• Someone that wants to take an active role in defining the next gen data platform that utilizes stream processing and CDC to drive data latency to zero, while also focusing on ease‑of‑use and extensibility
• Past experience working on scaling async systems and exposure to topics like gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes, Helm is preferred but not required
• Proficiency writing in Go is preferred, but not necessary
• Happy to work in‑person 5 days/week in San Francisco’s Financial District with the rest of the team

Tech stack

• Frontend: TypeScript (React and Material UI)
• Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
• Infra: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm on GCP and AWS