Software Engineer, Autoscaling - Remote

Overview

The Autoscaling Team is responsible for the compute infrastructure used for running Neon databases. Our work ranges from scheduling compute loads in a large cluster, providing a secure and flexible runtime infrastructure for the database processes to adapting the database containers to the requirements of the varying compute load.

In Short

• Join an experienced team and contribute to Neon compute infrastructure
• Participate in the design and implementation of compute infrastructure to provide a flexible and scalable yet secure system.
• Expand our footprint by interviewing and hiring great software engineers
• Drive excellence through the team and implement the world's best practices
• Participate in on-call rotation

Requirements

• At least 4 years of production experience in Software engineering
• Practical experience with go, Rust, or C++ programming language (2+ years)
• Experience using Kubernetes, QEMU, Github. Experience with Grafana, and Terraform is a plus.
• Passion for building systems software. Performance engineering and distributed systems are topics that excite you!
• Experience with open-source projects and developing publicly is a plus
• Passion for joining a fast-paced, early-stage startup
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

Benefits

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
• We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, private medical insurance, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon)