Software Engineer, Koyeb
Team, Billing & Orchestration
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Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
Open for applications
Serverless platform to deploy and run apps globally
1-20 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1-20 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
- Experience: > 4 years
What the job involves
- 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 role is focused on the team and billing management capabilities and will also involve implementing new orchestration features to provide the fastest deployment experience to developers
- You will be working on all components needed to implement team & orchestration features: Golang APIs using gRPC, Stripe and BareMetal hypervisors with Nomad and Firecracker MicroVMs
- 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 7 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:
- Design and implement advanced collaboration features and key billing capabilities like:
- 1. SSO with Google and 2FA
- 2. Budget / spending limits
- 3. Billing of new features
- Integrate new orchestration capabilities to the platform:
- 1. Deployment rollback
- 2. Postgres scale-to-zero
- 3. Database backups
- Constantly improve reliability and security of our orchestration technology relying on Nomad and Firecracker
- Contribute to the strategy with new insights on potential new features
- Participate to on-call and to maintaining a 99.99% availability
- 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
- We currently have our own auth system and use Stripe as a backend for billing
- 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
Application process
- Start Date: 15 September 2024
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 values
- Passion: We are passionate about the product we are building and the industry in which we are evolving. We are looking to work with people with a strong belief in the product they are building and with which we can share our passion
- Commitment: We believe in complete autonomy and excellence. We act on behalf of the entire company and our users. We never give up and are committed to success
- Ambition: We strive to build a company composed of highly talented people aiming to build outstanding Cloud Infrastructure products.
- Transparency: We believe in transparency, the data should be accessible and challengeable by anyone in the company. Decisions should always be backed by data
- Innovation: We are a technology company looking to build innovative products. We are always looking for new ideas to improve our platform for our users
- Continuous Learning: Experience should teach you that you will always be learning. We value experience and we value even more experienced people who know that they need to constantly adapt.
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
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Leadership
Yann Léger
(CEO)Previously worked as a Core Engineer at Free and as a Managing Director/Vice President at Scaleway.
Bastien Chatelard
(CTO)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)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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