Software Engineer, Infra/Systems
Designs, builds, and maintains global cloud infrastructure for Convex's backend platform, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability. Requires 5+ years backend experience with systems at scale, strong architecture skills, and on-call ownership in a startup environment.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain Convex’s global cloud infrastructure.
- Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.
- Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO.
- Help establish good practices and reliability guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.
- Write a bunch of cool systems and database code.
What Excites Us
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating infrastructure with a deep knowledge of systems at scale.
- Good understanding of best practices for systems design, operational practices, and managing services.
- Experience scaling in a high growth startup environment.
- Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.
- Ability to write high quality code (Rust is a plus).
- An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.
Compensation
The salary range for this full-time position is >$200,000 + equity + benefits
Skills
Rust, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, System Design, Databases, Oltp, Backend Engineering, Infrastructure Scaling, Operational Practices, High Availability Systems
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