Convex
Senior Software Engineer, Infra/Systems
San Francisco · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 55 days ago
RustNode.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentLLMsExcelSystems EngineeringCollaboration
About the role
- If you're passionate about distributed systems and have experience designing and operating large-scale infra, we'd love to talk!
- This is a hands-on role that moves between architecture and execution.
- We value simplicity, leveraged work, and strong ownership.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Convex's global cloud infrastructure.
- Own architectural decisions that shape the long-term behavior of multiple core systems.
- Experience building and scaling large systems, including owning systems through major scale transitions or building core infrastructure from scratch.
Requirements
- ~6+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering, though we care far more about depth of ownership and experience operating mission-critical systems than years alone.
Skills
- Convex is transforming the way developers build applications.
Compensation
- The salary range for this full-time position is > $240,000 + equity + benefits
Company info
- https://convex.dev/about-us
- Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest backends in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices.
- We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco.
- We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
- You'll work closely with the engineering team and CTO on some of the most important technical decisions at the company.
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