Software Engineer, Buf
Infrastructure
Develops protocol buffers for companies building APIs
Open for applications
Develops protocol buffers for companies building APIs
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To dramatically improve the experience of developing APIs using Protocol Buffers.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience owning projects as part of a team of software engineers in areas relevant to this role
- Demonstrated ability to shape, scope, plan, and execute work given an objective
- Proficient in Go with multiple years of professional experience using it regularly
- Proficient at deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters using Helm with multiple years of professional experience
- Professional experience managing cloud infrastructure AWS or GCP using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Crossplane
- Professional experience setting up effective alerts and observability dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana
- Excellent communication skills and organizational abilities
- The ability to move quickly and pragmatically while managing trade-offs
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics
- Eastern Time working hours or very close to it (candidates in Pacific Timezone need to have working hours that start at 8am PT or earlier)
Desirable
- Experience with other technologies that the team uses
- ArgoCD, Secureframe, GitHub actions, Protobuf, gRPC
- Experience working on products that target developers (e.g. dev tools)
- Experience managing Kafka deployments
- Experience working at a startup
What the job involves
- We’re looking to hire an experienced infrastructure/platform engineer to join our top-notch team of engineers who are responsible for building and operating our engineering platform at Buf
- As a startup, our infrastructure team has the opportunity to work on a wide variety of problems with the goal of making it easier to build, deploy, and operate our products
- Our team doesn’t just treat software like a black box — we’re empowered (and encouraged) to reach in and help improve the software
- This team’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Making multi-cloud configuration and management a breeze for both Google Cloud and AWS resources (e.g. Crossplane, GKE, EKS, managed Postgres)
- Ensuring we have the appropriate environments to validate changes and squash bugs before they reach customers (local, review, and staging environments)
- Maintaining high availability and high release velocity through a seamless deployment and staged release process (e.g. ArgoCD) across multiple production topologies (multi-tenant, single-tenant, and on-prem)
- Enabling excellent observability by empowering engineers to create delightful dashboards and effective alerts (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
- Keeping nefarious actors at bay with proper security and access controls, and proving it to our customers by maintaining SOC 2 compliance (e.g. Secureframe, Okta)
- Designing and building solutions for production-ready infrastructure systems
- Understanding the technical, functional, and business needs of our platform
- Developing systems that support the security, integrity, availability, and performance of our products
- Supporting incident management activities that ensure high availability and reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR)
- Handling 1-week on-call rotations (though we rarely get paged)
Application process
- Introductory stage
- [30m] Screening interview
- [60m] Hiring manager interview
- Team interviews
- [60m] Coding interview (in Go)
- [60m] System design interview
- Final conversations
- [30m] CEO interview
Our take
Currently, developers typically use APIs to allow for communications. Developing these APIs can be a laborious task, with developers stating that it can take up 20% of their development time. Buf streamlines the development process by providing protocol buffers that eliminate a large portion of the code that has to be written.
The company's product has been downloaded by more than one million developers, highlighting how useful this tool can be. It has recently focused on building its paid tool, Buf Schema Registry, with several early customers now testing it out, including major enterprises and public companies.
Buf's competitors include Grafana Labs Inc., and publicly traded Confluent Inc., Elastic NV and HashiCorp Inc. The company plans on using recent funding to focus on hiring more talent, accelerating product development and building up its user base, all in an attempt to ensure they can differentiate themselves from these close competitors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
106% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2021
$68m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$20.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $94.6m
Company benefits
- Opportunity to join the team in its early days, take on major responsibility, and make meaningful contributions
- Work as part of an international team coming together to solve real-world engineering problems - Buf employees come from all over the world
- Extremely competitive cash compensation and equity grants for all employees - we pay US-level salaries, regardless of which side of the border you are working on
- Professional downtown Toronto office for optimal collaboration. Generous budget for remote employees to travel to Toronto for in-person collaboration and team building
- Canadian immigration support available to all successful candidates and their families, including permanent residency sponsorship when eligible (Toronto office only)
Company HQ
South Core, Toronto, ON
Articles
Leadership
Peter Edge
(CEO)Studied computer science and math at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Founded Buf after leaving his previous job at Uber Technologies.
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