About Lantern

We will be part of the upcoming YC W24 batch, and we're looking for ambitious people who are builders.

Lantern is building a PostgreSQL database built for storing vector data used to build AI applications.

Our goal is to build the operating system for building AI applications. This means we want to build all of the tools that you would need to make it easy to build great applications, starting with the very best vector database!

We think we have what it takes to be the category leader in the vector database space, and cement ourselves as one of the best databases in the market. We want the biggest companies in the world to use our product to power their applications.

We're a small team based in San Francisco, California. Co-founders are all friends from college days at Princeton, and we're second time YC founders. We're all competitive, but also like having lots of fun!

If you've done some serious stuff with Rust, C++, C, postgreSQL ... we want to meet you.

Please reach out, and hope we end up building cool things together.

About the role

Skills:C, C++

Lantern is a Y Combinator W2024 startup, and we're looking for ambitious people who want to join us!

Lantern is building a PostgreSQL database built for storing vector data used to build AI applications. We're hiring our first engineer.

This is a cool opportunity because:

AI is for every single enterprise in every single industry. We're in the earliest innings. It's time to build.
AI is exploding with popularity now, and for good reason.
We help businesses build AI applications.
The team is competitive, ambitious, and we like to have fun.
We're going to ship fast. It's cool to take something from 0 to 1. It's also cool to take something from 1 to IPO.
We can compensate well.
This is the founder's second time going through Y Combinator!

Here's who we're looking for:

You have the fire. You're enthusiastic about Lantern, you want to build, and do cool stuff. Talk is cheap. Code isn't.
Experience with large projects in C, C++, or Rust (ideally with example projects in Github)
Experience with distributed systems, databases, or open-source projects
Working knowledge of operating systems and networking

Some details about responsibilities and possible projects:

Design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more
Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.
Continually improve, optimize, and test existing functionality of Lantern.
Build a cloud-hosted version of Lantern that's ready to handle the biggest enterprises.

Please reach out if you fit the bill, hope we end up building cool things together.

Technology

Our company has two main focuses. It all involves C, C++, Rust.

(1)Our first focus is to improve our core database functionality. Our database is open-source, and we have an endless amount of features + optimizations. Think cutting edge latency, best in-class throughput, scalability, low memory footprint, and tools to make developer's lives easier.

(2)Our second focus is around monetization. We will be building a cloud hosted version of Lantern, so developers can use Lantern without having to deal with infrastructure. If you have relevant experience here, please reach out, we'd love to meet you.

Interview Process

Our process is pretty straight forward. Two or three interviews.

The first interview will be with Jeung (15-30min), this will mostly be the get to know each other better, ask and answer questions, nothing immensely technical.

The second interview will be with Narek or Di (30-60min), we might talk through some technical problems and talk through some of your work. We might have you work on a brief project, all depends on your experience.

The last interview will be discretionarily used, possibly to hash out additional details, or work through additional problems together, this will be decided on a case by case basis. We might also want to work with you for a week just to gauge mutual fit.

Lantern remote jobs

Software Engineer - Database