Founding Platform Engineer

www.runconverge.com

Location: NYC (in-person)

About Converge

We want to profitably grow the world's consumer brands. That begins with helping them understand which marketing efforts are driving profitable growth.

200+ consumer brands, including publicly traded companies, rely on Converge to check in on their marketing performance up to a dozen times a day. They drill down to figure out what's working and decide where to shift million-dollar marketing budgets.

To ship even more, we've raised $5.7M from some of the best investors, including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and the founders of Posthog, Algolia, Shipbob, ...

What you'll do

We’re looking for a founding engineer to own and build out the data platform powering Converge.

We are just 3 product engineers and already operate systems most companies don’t touch until much later. You’ll be the first engineer to fully own and scale the platform layer:

Handling $4 billion in annual revenue
Ingesting 20 TB every month
Processing 5 billion jobs every month
6000 jobs / s at peak
Queries join, window, and aggregate up to 100M rows (100GB) in seconds, fully real-time.

This is not a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role. You will:

Drive your own roadmap
Go super deep on the hardest infra and systems problems
Work with product engineers to ship product that scales to the world’s largest consumer brands.

Some examples of what you’ll be working on:

Build out services that can ingest up to a trillion jobs / month
Stare at esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs
Figure out how to materialize our attribution dataset to join, window, and aggregate billions of rows in realtime
Build a SQL dialect for our customers (or agents) to directly query the data in Converge

This role is NOT for you if

You prefer to architect systems over building them. You will implement everything you design. Expect to be coding, a lot.
You want to own "big tech" style, multi-quarter migrations. We work with daily and weekly timelines.
You prefer working remote over in-person. We all love working from our NYC office.

What we're looking for

Very strong coding skills (we mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages)
Deep understanding of databases (OLTP & OLAP) (we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)
Experience at scale (you’ve seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems)
You’re pragmatic and customer-minded. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’s not needed.

Compensation

Salary: $180K - $240K + equity (0.5% - 0.85%).
Private health, dental, and vision insurance.
Pension & 401k contributions.

Interview process*

Intro call (30 min): We want to learn about your motivations to join Converge, determine why you’d be a great fit, and answer any questions you have for us.
Technical (1h): We work through a typical engineering problem we face at Converge.
Culture (45 min): We dive into your past experiences to learn how you like to work and what motivates you.
Superday (1 day): Join us for a day to actually build something! You get to meet the team, we get to meet you, it's great. (fully paid)

(*) This can all be done in 2 days. If you want to move quickly, we do too. Our founding engineer was on a plane to meet us just days after our first call.