Infrastructure Software Engineer, MotherDuck
$140-250k
+ Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
Data analytics platform
Job no longer available
Data analytics platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-250k
+ Offers Equity
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
- Strong programming skills and the ability to design software systems that are secure, scalable, and maintainable
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- A strong sense of ownership and a pragmatic approach to engineering tradeoffs
- Interest in building internal tools and automation to make development and operations easier for others
What the job involves
- Our engineering team comes from a wide mix of backgrounds, running the gamut from data experts to generalists, from big tech to start ups, and SaaS companies to government and finance
- But no matter where we’ve come from, we’re passionate, collaborative and customer-focused. We work together as a team from across our engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam
- MotherDuck’s infrastructure team builds the systems and tools that make our platform reliable, secure, and easy to operate. We’re hiring engineers who enjoy automating everything, designing for observability and resilience, and making it easy for the rest of the team to ship and operate high-quality software
- If you’re energized by a blend of cloud systems work, software development, and operational strategy, we’d love to hear from you
- Build and maintain infrastructure components using Go and Python across areas such as compute, networking, and storage
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines that enable safe and fast software delivery
- Implement observability tooling and dashboards that surface system health and improve oncall effectiveness
- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual intervention and increase consistency
- Collaborate with product and backend teams to embed operational best practices into product development
- Participate in incident response and ongoing efforts to improve system reliability and security
- Example Projects:
- Autoscaling in the EU region and private link networking
- Secure CI/CD pipelines with built-in observability
- Logging frameworks to support cross-system debugging
Application process
- Round 1: Interview with our Talent Partner (30min)
- Round 2: Technical Screen with one of our Tech Leads (30min)
- Round 3: 4 meetings with members of the team (60min each)
- Round 4: Values interview with our CEO/Founder (45min)
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company has invested in further enhancing its platform and expanding its user base. MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements. This means it can play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics, while combatting common pitfalls that teams come up against as they rely more on AI systems.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees (plus 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents) 🇺🇸
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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