Antithesis

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

Distributed Systems

About the role

The best way to learn what our platform should do next is to sit next to the people using it.

"We're building a new system that we need to ship fast, but it can't fail. So every big change turns into weeks of careful review before we trust it. How can we use Antithesis to do this?"
This one does both: close enough to real systems to see what's missing, close enough to the product to build it.
"We're building a new system that we need to ship fast, but it can't fail.
You've spent real time building or operating serious systems software, where correctness matters and the failures are subtle.

Experience with fuzzing, property-based testing, or chaos engineering.
You work with our platform engineers to prototype it: a sharper way to find bugs, an easier way to fix them, or an agent skill that iterates on the results.
You know how systems break under concurrency, faults, and load in ways no test caught.
You can read an unfamiliar codebase, instrument it, write a test, and debug something you've never seen before.
You can explain hard things to non-technical people without lecturing.

So every big change turns into weeks of careful review before we trust it.
How can we use Antithesis to do this?"
You're the person who shows up.
From day one you help a customer get their system running inside Antithesis, make sure it's catching the bugs they care about most, chase down the real ones it finds, and fold
You've worked with customers as an engineer. You've been in the room where something's broken and you're the one who has to help, and you didn't hate it.
You're up for five days a week in the office (DC, London, or SF) and occasional travel to our customers' offices.
You've worked with customers as an engineer.

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