Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services

Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles

Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs)

A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18mo.

The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around

A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup

A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed

A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond

For better or worse, we're a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages.

We're distributed ALL across the globe, and that's only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening.

We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but you'll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone else's.

We're a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing we're 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. There's a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.

We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices.

No tricks. No surprises. Here's the entire process:

Talk with us about the role This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.

This is completely open ended and we're just trying to see who you are, what you want to do, and where you wanna go.

Work on a small project to discuss in the interview Asynchronously implement the following: Pre-interview: Design a Storage Engine to power something like Railway's Volume You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.

Asynchronously implement the following:

Pre-interview: Design a Storage Engine to power something like Railway's Volume

You can, and SHOULD! ask us questions ahead of time.

Review your solution with the Team You'll sit down with someone on the team and go over the above. We'll poke into your solution, as well as get you acquainted with two more members of the team. Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution. Interview Structure (60 Minutes): Prework (submitted before your interview): Complete your solution 0-5m: introduction 5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution 50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc

You'll sit down with someone on the team and go over the above. We'll poke into your solution, as well as get you acquainted with two more members of the team. Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.

Looking for: Learn about your problem solving skills. How you break down a problem and how you present a solution.

Interview Structure (60 Minutes): Prework (submitted before your interview): Complete your solution 0-5m: introduction 5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution 50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc

Prework (submitted before your interview): Complete your solution

0-5m: introduction

5-50m: Building (or expanding) your solution

50-60m: Questions on Railway/Tech/etc

Meet the Team You'll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company. Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.

You'll meet the Team, which will be comprised of 4 people from vastly different sections of the company. Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.

Looking for: How you work with the rest of the team and communicate.

Offer and Details Chat with CEO Finally, we will go over the process, the role, and hammer out the details about your position, onboarding, and all the deets.

Finally, we will go over the process, the role, and hammer out the details about your position, onboarding, and all the deets.

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