Founding Platform Engineer

About Converge

AI-native growth platform for DTC

The role

We’re looking for a **founding engineer** to own and build out the **data platform** powering Converge.Right now we are **just 3 product engineers** and already **operate systems most companies don’t touch until much later**. You’ll be the first engineer to fully own and scale the platform layer:* Handling **$4 billion** in annual revenue* Ingesting **20 TB** every month* Processing **5 billion jobs** every month* **6000 jobs / s** at peak* Queries join, window, and aggregate up to **100M rows** (100GB) in **seconds**, fully **real-time**.This is **not a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role**. You will:* **Drive your own roadmap*** Go super **deep** on the **hardest** infra and systems problems* Work with product engineers to **ship product that scales** to the **world’s largest** consumer brands.Some examples of what you’ll be working on:* **Build out services** that can ingest up to a **trillion** **jobs / month*** Stare at **esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs*** Figure out how to **materialize our attribution dataset** to scale to join, window, and aggregate **billions of rows** in realtime* **Build a SQL dialect** for our customers (or agents) to directly query the data in Converge### This role is NOT for you if* You **prefer to architect systems over building** them. You will implement everything you design. **Expect to be coding, a lot**.* You want to **own "big tech" style, multi-quarter** migrations. We work with daily and weekly timelines.* You **prefer working remote over in-person**. We all love working from our NYC office.### What we’re looking for* **Very strong coding** skills (we mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages)* **Deep understanding of databases** (OLTP & OLAP) (we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)* **Experience at scale** (you’ve seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems)* You’re **pragmatic** and **customer-minded**. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’s _not needed_.

Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• ClickHouse