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Distributed Systems Engineer

Archil · San Francisco · On-site

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About Archil

Give every sandbox fast, governed access to production data without copies, syncs, or cold starts. Backed by Y Combinator and Felicis.

About the role

As a distributed systems engineer, you’ll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You’ll have significant influence over the technical and product direction. You have 3+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems (flexible).

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As a distributed systems engineer, you’ll work across the stack to solve problems as they come up and help build Archil volumes. You’ll have significant influence over the technical and product direction.

Be oncall for a production system to help our customers if anything goes wrong.

Build out never-before-seen capabilities in a storage service

Design distributed systems interactions for atomicity and idempotency

Deploy infrastructure and generalize infrastructure across different clouds

Operate through changing customer requirements with lots of ambiguity

You have 3+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems (flexible).

Ideally, you’ve worked at a startup before, so you know how chaotic this time can be.

You’ve successfully resolved disagreements at work before, and you understand that the highest priority is helping our customers — not being right.

You’re comfortable debugging problems that occur as a result of failures in multiple, different systems, using tools like metrics and logs.

You’ve been paged at 3am to solve a complex production issue before.

You’re knowledgeable about distributed systems: you get how consensus works, you know how to scale...

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