Founding Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Artie is seeking a third founding engineer focused on distributed systems to join their San Francisco-based team. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of real-time database replication technology.

As a founding engineer, you'll work at the intersection of data engineering, distributed systems, and infrastructure. The role involves building critical features like column encryption, analytics portals, and schema change alerts, while also optimizing pipeline efficiencies and developing CDC connectors.

Artie has shown impressive growth, processing over 10 billion rows monthly since launching a year ago. The company is backed by notable investors including Pathlight, General Catalyst, and angels like Benn Stancil (Mode) and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox).

The ideal candidate should have:

• Strong computer science fundamentals
• A pragmatic approach to building solutions
• Comfort working across the full stack
• Interest in defining next-gen data platforms
• Experience with async systems (preferred)
• Knowledge of technologies like gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes (preferred)
• Go programming proficiency (preferred)

The tech stack includes:

• Frontend: TypeScript with React and Material UI
• Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm on GCP and AWS

This role offers an opportunity to work directly with customers while building cutting-edge data infrastructure that drives data latency to zero. The position combines technical depth with the excitement of joining an early-stage startup making real impact in the data engineering space.