Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)

We want toprofitably grow the world's consumer brands.

That begins with helping them understand which marketing efforts are driving profitable growth.

200+ consumer brands, includingpublicly tradedcompanies, rely on Converge to check in on their marketing performance up to a dozen times a day.

They drill down to figure out what's working and decidewhere to shift million-dollar marketing budgets.

To ship even more, we'veraised $5.7Mfrom some of the best investors, including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and the founders of Posthog, Algolia, Shipbob, ...

We’re looking for afounding engineerto own and build out thedata platformpowering Converge.

We arejust 3 product engineersand alreadyoperate systems most companies don’t touch until much later.

You’ll be the first engineer to fully own and scale the platform layer:
Handling$4 billionin annual revenue
Processing5 billion jobsevery month
Queries join, window, and aggregate up to100M rows(100GB) inseconds, fullyreal-time.

This isnot a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role.

You will:
Go superdeepon thehardestinfra and systems problems
Work with product engineers toship product that scalesto theworld’s largestconsumer brands.

Some examples of what you’ll be working on:
Build out servicesthat can ingest up to atrillionjobs / month
Stare atesoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs
Figure out how tomaterialize our attribution datasetto join, window, and aggregatebillions of rowsin realtime
Build a SQL dialectfor our customers (or agents) to directly query the data in Converge
Youprefer to architect systems over buildingthem.

You will implement everything you design.Expect to be coding, a lot.

You want toown "big tech" style, multi-quartermigrations.

We work with daily and weekly timelines.

Youprefer working remote over in-person.

We all love working from our NYC office.

Very strong codingskills (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’repragmaticandcustomer-minded.

The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’snot needed.

Salary: $180K - $240K + equity (0.5% - 0.85%).

Private health, dental, and vision insurance.

Intro call(30 min): We want to learn about your motivations to join Converge, determine why you’d be a great fit, and answer any questions you have for us.

Technical(1h): We work through a typical engineering problem we face at Converge.

Culture(45 min): We dive into your past experiences to learn how you like to work and what motivates you.

Superday(1 day): Join us for a day to actually build something!

You get to meet the team, we get to meet you, it's great.

(fully paid)
(*) This can all be done in 2 days.

If you want to move quickly, we do too.

Our founding engineer was on a plane to meet us just days after our first call.

All co-founders have written code that has run in production as part of Converge.

We closed our first publicly traded company during our YC batch from our living room in San Francisco.

Thomas and Tiago (Founding Engineer) worked together when Thomas was just an intern.

Michel (Customer Success) was responsible for most of the incoming Converge Support tickets in his previous job as a freelance tracking consultant.

Thomas and Jan were best friends in high school, and Jan and Jerome met in their first year of college.