Interfere empowers engineers, product managers and designers with real-time understanding of previously unseen bugs and issues. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
You'll own the data backbone of Interfere. Every signal the product reasons about (events, traces, logs, runtime behavior, code, session data) flows through systems you'll build, store, and query. The product's intelligence is only as good as the data underneath it, and that data is only useful if it's accurate, fast, and affordable at scale. That's your job.
What they're looking for
- You've built and operated production data infrastructure at meaningful scale, with real throughput, real cost pressure, and real consequences when it breaks
- You're fluent in distributed-systems tradeoffs: streaming vs batch, consistency vs latency, full fidelity vs sampling, storage vs compute. You pick the right answer for the situation rather than the one you read most recently
- You take an ambiguous data or infrastructure problem, define the next useful step, and ship without waiting for a fully specified plan
- You treat cost as a feature. A system that works at 1x and burns the company at 100x isn't finished
- You can explain pipeline behavior, failure modes, and tradeoffs clearly enough that engineers, AI researchers, and PMs can make the right call quickly
More about this role
Interfere turns a product's invisible failures into shared problems the whole team can see and fix. Every app has places where users get confused, blocked, or forced to abandon a flow, but most of those moments never make it into a support ticket. We detect those failures in real-time and provide every person responsible for the fix with the context they need. When Interfere flags a broken checkout flow, the PM uses our data to prioritize the issue, the designer sees where the experience broke down, and the engineer pulls the trace underneath. We're building the operating system for product quality, so teams can move from scattered symptoms to a shared understanding of what's actually going wrong. We're a seven-person team in New York, with $5.1M raised from Y Combinator, Vercel Ventures, Hummingbird, Designer Fund, and others. Interfere is already running in production with design partners, which means the work you ship will immediately help real teams find and fix the failures costing them users today. The category is still being defined, but the product to fill this gap is inevitable, and the company that gets there first will own how the next decade of teams ship software....
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