Interested? Email [email protected] - see below for more details.

Role

• Member of the founding team.
• Core contributor to a variety of systems: backend services, command line tools, resource reconciliation engine, etc.
• Open source product that targets developers: https://exo.deref.io/
• Most systems built with Go; some peripheral systems build with TypeScript.
• Challenging and novel systems engineering; not just another CRUD app.
• Compensation: Salary up to $175,000 and generous equity.

You

• Motivation
  • Desire to grow with a business from seed to success.
  • Passion for robust solutions to real problems.
  • Prolific: Will implement the solution, improve a variety of adjacent things along the way, and then just move on to solve another problem.
  • Ambition to take on a leadership role as the company grows.
• Skills
  • Experience developing production services and applications on a team.
  • Strong foundation in fundamentals. You don't have to have implemented a production database or programming language, but you wouldn't be totally lost if someone asked you to.
  • Deep knowledge of a variety of popular DevOps & cloud technologies.
  • Clear communicator and articulate writer.

Deref

https://www.deref.io

Deref's mission is to help engineers to build better services.

• Pre-seed funded ($1.2M raised)
• Small team:
  • Technical CEO: Brandon Bloom's career highlights include: Xbox devtools, police body cameras, Code.org's Hour of Code campaign, and he sold a company to Salesforce.
  • Several talented engineers of various specialities.
• Globally distributed, remote-first, and asynchronous work.
  • Core business hours are 9am to noon pacific time.

Process

You can apply by emailing [email protected]

Please include a link to your resume, LinkedIn, blog, GitHub, or similar and let us know why you're interested. Note that brevity is appreciated. If there is a chance you're a fit, we'll respond quickly with an invite for short video call.