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Converge (YC S23) · 1 day ago

Founding Platform Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$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.

E-CommerceBig DataSoftwareAdvertisingAnalytics

H1B Sponsor Likely

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)

Converge is an all-in-one data platform for paid customer acquisition.

Founded in 2022

San Francisco, California, USA

2-10 employees

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)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

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

Jérôme Billiet

Co-Founder

Thomas Holvoet

Co-Founder and CTO

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