Software Engineer, Koyeb
Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering
€70-90k
Salary in Euros which may vary in further locations.+ Equity
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Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
Open for applications
Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
21-100 employees
Open for applications
€70-90k
Salary in Euros which may vary in further locations.+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the fastest way to run APIs, full-stack apps, and event-driven workloads around the world with high performance and a developer-centric experience.
Role
Who you are
- Have an international mindset and think global
- Are looking for a fast-paced environment
- Are ambitious and believe small teams can have a huge impact
- Are data-driven, you know decisions are more meaningful if they are based on data
- Are working as a team member
- Are autonomous and structured, are able and willing to write specifications/plans before implementing/executing
- Are striving for continuous improvement and learning
- Understand we work to improve the product for our users
What the job involves
- We are looking for a software engineer with a passion for infrastructure and reliability
- As a Software Engineer, you will be working on our APIs and on the distributed system
- Our distributed system is the core of our product, our users rely on it to continuously deploy applications and for the continuity of their operations
- This job is focused on scaling the infrastructure across multiple locations and improving reliability of our platform, implementing new strategic orchestration related features, and helping us provide a powerful and reliable deployment experience to developers
- You will be working on all components supporting end-user deployments: Golang APIs using gRPC, BareMetal hypervisors with Nomad and Firecracker MicroVMs, and our service mesh using Cilium and Envoy
- Develop new core features related to networking, serverless, and orchestration
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a large-scale distributed system running across continents
- Design, implement and maintain user-friendly APIs
- Measure and instrument features you develop with reliability and product impact in mind
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation, our platform never sleeps
- You will be part of our pizza-sized engineering team of 6 people building the complete Koyeb cloud platform. To clarify: it’s not one of the engineering teams, it’s the engineering team
- You will be working daily with our co-founders Bastien, CTO, and Edouard, CPO
- You’ll succeed if you:
- Help us scale globally and industrialize the deployment of 10 new locations worldwide in 2023, including:
- US-West Core location
- North-East Asia Core location
- South-East Asia Core location
- And 7 additional locations across the world
- Improve reliability of end-user deployments to support 200k services running on our platform with a 99.99% deployment success rate
- Improve internal and external (in-app) observability to systematically provide insightful information for fast troubleshooting
- Design and implement strategic orchestration features like:
- Nomad drivers for Firecracker
- Autoscaling
- Block storage
- Participate to on-call rotations and to reaching a 99.99% monthly SLO
- Our stack and technologies:
- Our public APIs are written in Golang, use gRPC internally, and answer to REST requests
- We rely on PostgreSQL for data storage
- We sometimes use Python for scripting
- All user workloads are run inside of MicroVMs using Firecracker, a fork from KVM open-sourced by Amazon
- We use Nomad to schedule these MicroVMs on top of BareMetal servers
- We use Prometheus, Grafana Agent/Mimir/Loki for our observability stack. We also do distributed tracing with Jaeger
- We use a few cloud technologies like Kubernetes to deploy our own control plane. We use AWS, GCP, or DigitalOcean to host our control plane
- All deployments are automated using Terraform and Ansible
- Our networking stack is built using Cilium, which wraps eBPF, and Envoy.
- We hire everywhere in Europe for this position and you should be less than 2500 kms/5 hours away from Paris, France as we meet once every 6 weeks for an event we - super originally - call “Everyone in Paris”
Application process
- We ask you to send us “something interesting” via the standard application form. Here is some guidelines on what we think is interesting:
- Please explain why you would like to join us, a resume without any explanation is rarely interesting. This is sometimes called a cover letter, but just think about it as if you would send an e-mail and explain why you think we should talk
- An up to date LinkedIn/equivalent profile or resume is needed. We need it to have a quick overview of what you’ve done
- Open source projects you’ve worked on
- What we need to understand is how what you've worked on is relevant to what we’re building here at Koyeb. We don’t pay extensive attention to standardized format and what the theory says, but keep in mind that good written communication skills are crucial to work at Koyeb
- If we believe we could work together, Richa, our talent lead, will reach out to schedule a first 45 minutes call to make sure this could be a match
- If this looks good, we will continue with a 45 minutes call to discuss about your experience and ask a few questions around your software engineering culture, Linux systems knowledge, network engineering experience to have a global feeling of what you’re already know and where you would need to develop your pure engineering skills
- The whole process should take about two to three weeks
Our take
Specialising in cloud computing, Koyeb empowers developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment process and reducing operational complexities.
Through its innovative serverless platform, Koyeb enables users to run apps, APIs, and workloads across various cloud systems without the need for infrastructure or server management. This approach eliminates the traditional hassles associated with provisioning and managing servers, allowing developers to focus on building and scaling their applications efficiently.
A relatively young company established in 2020, Koyeb has quickly gained traction. It has successfully launched in Paris and provides native load balancing in 250 edge locations. As Koyeb sets its sights on simultaneous deployment in ten core locations worldwide, its potential for growth and expanded reach increase exponentially.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$7m
SEED
Oct 2020
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $8.6m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Yann Léger
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Core Engineer at Free and as a Managing Director/Vice President at Scaleway.
Bastien Chatelard
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Backend Developer at LogSafe. Also worked at Scalway, initially as a DevOps Engineer before becoming the Head of R&D and finally the VP of Site Reliability Engineering.
Edouard Bonlieu
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experienced Software Engineer having previously worked as Logaviv and Total E&P. Also worked at Scaleway as a Cloud Evangelist and VP of Product Marketing.
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