# Senior Systems Engineer, Database at Antithesis

- Company: Antithesis
- What the company does: Antithesis is an autonomous software testing platform that finds the bugs others miss. Backed by Amplify.
- Company website: https://antithesis.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Vienna, VA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/antithesis/3cdaf5e6-10cc-4142-a5bd-6979efb5f904
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/antithesis-senior-systems-engineer-database/

## About the role

Pangolin is Antithesis's custom streaming analytics database — the backbone of how our customers interact with and make sense of their data. It's built around a native tree structure that scales to over a billion nodes, supports ACID transactions, and lets customers define arbitrarily complex queries through JavaScript UDFs. Under the hood: disaggregated storage and compute, Lambda-based processing, and S3-backed storage — a modern architecture built from scratch rather than inherited.

## What they're looking for

- We want engineers who think carefully about performance and correctness, take ownership of systems end to end, and are energized by working directly with the people who use what they build
- Strong proficiency in Rust, safe, performant, idiomatic code is second nature to you
- Deep systems programming fundamentals — you can reason about memory, concurrency, and performance from first principles
- Strong CS fundamentals in data structures and algorithms, with a habit of solving hard problems from the ground up
- Strong backend engineering background, you've worked on or alongside database systems and understand what makes them tick — the more depth, the better
- Product-minded: comfortable talking to internal customers, translating fuzzy requirements into concrete priorities, and owning delivery

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