Systems Engineer

Last edited: Jan 15, 2025

We Start Where Others Stop

For 50 years, abstractions around compute have followed an irreversible law: systems must handle complexity so humans don’t have to. We stopped writing assembly code. We abandoned physical servers. And yet, engineers still waste 30% of their time managing infrastructure—debugging YAML files, tweaking scaling policies, patching Kubernetes clusters.

Infrastructure remains stubbornly complex. The systems we rely on to keep software running are still deeply manual, brittle, and expensive to maintain. But a paradigm shift is now possible. 

When maintenance disappears, builders can finally build.

Role

As a Systems Engineer you will take ownership of the foundational systems that power our platform. Your focus will be on developing high-performance, low-level software that operates near the metal while building scalable and efficient infrastructure.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, from optimizing systems for performance and reliability to contributing to infrastructure provisioning and deployment. We are a small team, and you will play a key role in shaping our technology stack and driving its evolution.

If you thrive on squeezing every ounce of performance from distributed systems or tuning low-level optimizations, this role is for you. 

You

As our next Systems Engineer, you should have at least 5 years of experience in systems engineering or a related role, preferably at a high-growth company, plus:

Essentials

• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems and data pipelines. 
• Proficient in a low-level systems programming language, such as C, C++, Go, or Rust.
• Experienced in containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (i.e. AWS, Azure, or GCP) and IaC tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with metrics, logging, and tracing systems, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on creating highly maintainable, scalable code.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable with iterative development, prototyping, and adapting quickly to feedback.
• Passionate about building things not just innovative but also practical and impactful—basically, a strong product and customer focus. 

Standouts

• You have experience writing and debugging assembly code for both RISC and CISC architectures. 
• Experience building observability/monitoring platforms. 
• Deep understanding of agent-based architectures (i.e. system-level eBPF agents).
• Experience working with LLM-based applications and/or eager to learn and deepen expertise in them.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• You love mentoring and teaching junior engineers.