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Converge (YC S23) · 12 hours ago

Founding Platform Engineer

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$180K/yr - $240K/yr

Converge, a startup from Y Combinator, is seeking a Founding Platform Engineer to build and scale their data platform. The role involves owning the platform layer, driving the roadmap, and tackling complex infrastructure and systems challenges to support significant data processing requirements.

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Responsibilities

Drive your own roadmap
Go super deep on the hardest infra and systems problems
Work with product engineers to ship product that scales to the world’s largest consumer brands
Build out services that can ingest up to a trillion jobs / month
Stare at esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory profiles
Figure out how to materialize our attribution dataset to scale to join, window, and aggregate billions of rows in realtime
Build a SQL dialect for our customers (or agents) to directly query the data in Converge

Qualification

PythonDatabases (OLTP & OLAP)Experience at scaleClickhousePostgresPragmaticCustomer-minded

Required

Very strong coding skills (we mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages)
Deep understanding of databases (OLTP & OLAP) (we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)
Experience at scale (you've seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems)
You're pragmatic and customer-minded. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what's not needed

Company

Converge (YC S23)

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Converge is an all-in-one data platform for paid customer acquisition.
dateFounded in 2022
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://www.runconverge.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Converge (YC S23) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$6.1M
Key Investors
Y Combinator
2025-02-06Series Unknown· $5.6M
2023-09-06Pre Seed· $0.5M

Leadership Team

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Jérôme Billiet
Co-Founder
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Thomas Holvoet
Co-Founder and CTO
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