Member of Technical Staff, Chronosphere
Distributed Storage, Metrics Platform
$200-250k
Plus bonus and equity
Redefining cloud-native monitoring
Open for applications
Redefining cloud-native monitoring
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
Plus bonus and equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To redefine monitoring for the cloud-native world by building the world’s most scalable, reliable and customizable monitoring platform.
Role
Who you are
- Chronosphere is looking for trailblazers who are experts in their space and are passionate about creating meaningful solutions for engineers and digital businesses
- The ability to independently own projects from inception to delivery (i.e. plan and gather requirements, collaborate with Product)
- Pre-existing experience on how to build high scale systems and experience with building sophisticated application services
- A passion for growing and up-leveling your peers, and have pre-existing mentoring experience and a nuanced view around how to help junior engineers grow
- Deep background in distributed systems or storage layer programming. You will be working on low level problems such as query engine optimization, on-disk data indexing, or data replication, and need to come to the role with a background in similar types of problems
- Strong skills in a system level language such as Go, C++, Java, C#, or Rust. Knowing a specific language isn’t important; what matters is that you’ve become fluent in one by spending a lot of time in the types of projects where these languages are used
- Experience operating highly available systems in production. We don’t just ship software - we also run a service on behalf of our customers. You’ll need to know how to do this effectively: where to place instrumentation to get the best understanding of your code’s behavior in production, how to debug distributed systems under load, and how to reproduce issues that might seem to only manifest in production workloads
- A flexible, collaborative working style. We’re a small team working in a rapidly evolving space, and we’re looking for people that will help build a positive, supportive environment
What the job involves
- Our product is an industrial-scale software-as-a-service observability platform, and you will be designing and implementing the core of our metrics API platform and ingestion pipeline, responsible for handling hundreds of millions of writes per second
- You will work on hard distributed systems and data storage problems, building a highly available storage engine where you need to optimize for every byte in memory, every disk I/O, and every network packet
- The time series database is the backbone of our product, and your work will control its scalability and reliability
- Design, implement, and test enhancements to our metric API and core ingestion pipeline, using Go on Kubernetes/GCP/AWS
- Collaborate across product, design, and infrastructure to define the architectural / technical roadmap of our metrics platform
- Level up the reliability and software quality practices within the team via direct mentorship, program development, and development infrastructure
- Build operational tooling for the code you write, and work with our cloud infrastructure team to manage your code in production
- In the first month, you will build a deep understanding of Chronosphere’s platform and begin contributing to the product. You will have time to learn about the space, our customer’s needs, and the underlying technology
- Within 90 days, you will have shipped several enhancements to the metrics stack and contributed to designs shaping the overall direction of the system. You will be a core contributor to internal enhancements, and will become a go-to person in one or more areas of the system
- Reporting to Wesley Kim, Engineering Manager
Our take
As companies switch to cloud-native strategies, the main problem they face is how to store, keep track of and analyse data in real-time. Chronosphere offers scalable cloud monitoring services custom-built for managing cloud-native infrastructure and apps.
The company is entering a field that is on the rise, albeit crowded with both startups and leaders like Microsoft Cloud Monitoring and Amazon Cloudwatch. Chronosphere's edge likely lies in the cost efficiency of their service, and what seems a relatively transparent billing model. In addition, the founders are using Chronosphere to continue developing their open-source metrics engine M3.
This open-source product has proven a draw for both investors and customers, even when up against tech industry giants. The company's significant growth and funding (most recently from CrowdStrike) efforts have resulted in a $1.6bn valuation, Chronosphere has managed to remain highly competitive in a rapidly expanding market as it further optimizes its product.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$115m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$200m
SERIES C
Total funding: $369.4m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible PTO
- Training & Career Growth
- Flexible Work Enviroment
- Commuter Benefits
- Free Lunches
Company values
- No Egos
- Enduring Camaraderie & Care
- Trust & Transparency
- Reliability & Responsibility
- Nothing is Impossible
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
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Leadership
Martin Mao
(CEO)After working in Software Engineering for Microsoft, Call Design, Google, and Woods Bagot, Martin served as Technical Lead for Amazon Web and Director of Pure Interactive. They then spent 4 years at Uber, before co-founding Chronosphere.
Rob Skillington
(CTO)Rob worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft and Groupon before spending 5 years at Uber as Staff Software Engineer.
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