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.
200k+/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE
About the role
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
RustDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureSystem DesignDatabasesOltpBackend EngineeringInfrastructure ScalingOperational PracticesHigh Availability Systems
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