Senior Backend Software Engineer, ReadySet
$160-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
SQL caching engine
Open for applications
SQL caching engine
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the future data layer of the web.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Backend engineering focus
- Experience with Python and AWS a must
- Experience working on Distributed Systems, Database Systems and Cloud based Services
- Experience with service-oriented architectures
- Experience with building Cloud Native solutions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud is highly desirable
- Exposure to building a traditional machine learning system or a service that uses public or self-hosted LLM models
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
What the job involves
- We’re looking for software engineers who are experts in building systems software with a specialization in Distributed systems, Storage or FileSystems, Database Services, Caching Services or similar services and are excited to continue expanding their depth of knowledge in these fields
- In this role, you will scope, design, and build parts of the Cloud platform for the Readyset cache. Experience with building scale-out services is desirable
- In your day-to-day work, you’ll iterate on and build production-level code with a growing user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
- As a part of a small and growing team, you’ll also work cross-functionally to help scope out product requirements, respond to new customer needs, and develop code to solve complex problems
- As a part of our engineering team, you’ll collaborate with other team members to contribute to process improvements, give product and architectural feedback, and work towards making Readyset more robust and feature-complete
- In this role, you will build a significant portion of the system hands-on while also guiding others to make sound engineering choices in design and code
- The systems you architect and build will be robust, scalable, supportable, and manageable
- You will use your speech and written communication proficiency to influence others and establish engineering processes and guidelines
- Additionally, you will interact with leaders and colleagues across the company and work collaboratively on projects
- As a thought leader in the domain, you will blog about and evangelize the amazing engineering systems you and your colleagues are building
Our take
Once applications begin to gain popularity, databases need to be able to handle an increased volume of requests, larger data sets, and more complicated queries. Databases that can’t keep up can lead to substantial business losses precisely when there’s most to be gained: Super Bowl weekend, for example, or Black Friday. ReadySet is looking to help companies dodge this issue.
The company is developing a plug-and-play data caching layer that pre-computes and caches query results in relational databases, meaning that database reads can remain fast. In fact, ReadySet claims that the layer supports millions of reads per second “with sub-millisecond latencies on a single node”.
This is a hugely impressive feat from the company, founded by a team of data systems researchers from MIT, for whom ReadySet began as Noria - the open source streaming data-flow system developed in the lab. Plus, whilst it’s still in development, surveys suggest that there’s substantial enterprise appetite for this kind of product. This is partly thanks to unfit legacy systems, and partly in anticipation of the swelling user and data volumes anticipated for the years ahead - both are good news for ReadySet.
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Insights
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$29m
SERIES A
Total funding: $29m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with minimum vacation recommendations
- 90 days of paid parental leave
- Team offsites - a few times a year, the whole company meets to facilitate in person collaboration and team bonding
- We actively encourage participation at conferences and events
- Virtual game hours & an internal tech talk series for our remote team to learn together and have fun together
Company values
- Diversity and Inclusion - we have put immense effort into fostering an inclusive, diverse work environment from the time of the company’s founding. We expect everyone to bring empathy and respect to all of their interactions with coworkers and customers
- Healthy Collaboration - Though every team member at ReadySet is individually exceptional, many of the problems we are solving have not been solved before. This means engineering at ReadySet is a team sport
- Safety to Fail - as a growth stage company tackling huge engineering challenges, sometimes we fail. When this happens, we don’t place blame or keep score and are willing to acknowledge when we could have done better
- Continuous Learning and Growth - we want to be a company where all employees are excited to continue learning and growing in their area of expertise, no matter which role or team they are a part of
Company HQ
Beverly Hills, CA
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Leadership
Alana Marzoev
(CEO)Previously worked on ML engineering at BioBots, then ML and Computer Systems Research first at UC Berkeley College of Engineering's RISELab, then at Cornell University College of Engineering. Subsequently worked in cloud infrastructure at Microsoft, and recently completed an MIT PhD in distributed systems and databases.
Jon Gjengset
(Co-Founder)Completed a PhD on distributed systems at MIT and worked a spell there as a TA, before moving into a Senior Software Development Engineer role at AWS. Has also spent nearly two decades as a Supervisor and Web Developer at Oksnøen Leir camp.
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