🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll design and build a horizontally scalable platform for ingesting millions of hardware sensor data points per second. You'll pioneer streaming and storage infrastructure for a real-time telemetry platform used by advanced engineering teams. This role offers the chance to define core architecture from the ground up at a mission-critical systems company founded by SpaceX veterans.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design and build horizontally scalable data ingestion platform
• Develop durable database solutions for real-time and analytics workloads
• Pioneer data architecture with cloud-native and diskless designs
• Collaborate on architecture, code reviews, and scaling strategies

📋 Requirements

• 7+ years of backend, infrastructure, or data engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with event-time stream processing (Flink, Kafka Streams, Beam)
• Proficiency with relational or time-series databases (PostgreSQL, Druid, Pinot, TimescaleDB)
• Experience with distributed systems in Go, Rust, or Python

✨ Nice to Have

• Familiarity with hardware telemetry data or high-throughput ingest pipelines
• Experience with columnar storage formats like Apache Arrow or Parquet
• Curiosity about emerging data paradigms and tools

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive salary ($200K-$250K)
• 📈 Equity included
• 🏥 Benefits offered
• 🏢 Hybrid work with in-office collaboration twice a week
• 🚀 Early-stage impact defining core infrastructure

🚩 Heads Up

• ITAR/EAR compliance restricts to U.S. persons only