Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Architect and implement solutions in the queueing layer, state store, and execution layer (e.g. debounce, concurrency over time)
• ▹Plan and implement throughput and latency improvements at hundreds of thousands to millions of requests per second
• ▹Contribute to systems architecture and infrastructure changes as the company grows
• ▹Collaborate on exposing internal data across metrics stores, APIs, and customer dashboards
• ▹Work with backend engineers to design APIs for the Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server, and CLIs
• ▹Dogfood the product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations
• ▹Communicate with users through Github, email, and Discord
• ▹Write technical specs for features and documentation for users

Requirements

• ▹Several years of experience working on distributed systems
• ▹Two or more years of professional experience with Go or similar statically typed languages
• ▹Experience architecting, or being involved in designing, systems that handle scale
• ▹Understanding of engineering trade-offs and sound judgement on approaches
• ▹Understanding of how to observe, monitor, and maintain the systems you design
• ▹Appreciation for simplicity, even if it's harder to design and build

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with compliance (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, etc.) and how it serves security approaches
• ▹Experience or a solid understanding of networking
• ▹Experience managing and maintaining systems, e.g. in SRE roles

Soft skills

About the company

Inngest is solving long-standing developer problems in a novel way, building tools developers use in their everyday workflow. Stack: Go, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, PubSub/Kafka, k8s; hosted on AWS, GCP, and bare metal.