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Founding Engineer (Platform/Infra/DevOps)
San Francisco, CA
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"Would love someone with more experience working in and out of cloud infra, DevOps, secops, etc. Someone who wants ownership of the infra stack for the company"

What are we building?

Greybeam is building a way for companies to orchestrate their SQL queries between data warehouses and external query engines, automatically selecting the best engine to either 10x performance or 10x query cost reduction (and often both!). Today, we're routing queries between Snowflake and DuckDB, and in the future, we plan to include Trino, ClickHouse, StarRocks, etc.

Our vision is to build the destination for data processing—a compute platform that automatically assigns and provisions the best compute engine for each workload.

What's it like working with us?

We're fun, easy-going, and we joke around a lot. But we also work a ton and expect you to put your passion, grit, and dedication into all the work that you do. As an early employee, everything you do will have outsized impact. We're building a highly technical product that's paving the road into data 3.0, and we would love to work with people who are as passionate and driven about unlocking the multi-engine dream as we are.

We'll laugh together, eat together, work together, and most importantly, have a ton of fun delivering an amazing product to our customers.

Role Description

We are looking for a Founding Engineer to join our Platform and Infrastructure team to build out our cloud platform. As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the co-founders to design and develop a platform that supports multiple data storage and processing technologies, including Snowflake, DuckDB, Trino, and ClickHouse.

This is a full-time, in-person role in SF where you will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's technology from the ground up and take ownership of key technical milestones.

You are perfect for this role if you:

• Are a platform engineer with experience in platform, infrastructure, and networking.
• Have worked on service meshes like Istio and Envoy, with a strong grasp of traffic management and observability.
• Implement applications in private/public cloud infrastructure and container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Manage infrastructure with tools like Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.
• Manage, configure, and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block, object, etc.), networking (VPCs, proxies, CDNs, etc.), and administer high-availability clusters (DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.).
• Build and support CI/CD platforms, automate infrastructure needs, environment buildout, software releases, and system maintenance.
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Kubernetes toolsets, etc.
• Scale infrastructure on distributed systems.

Experiences that will help you excel:

• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes.
• Experience working with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, Azure in a production environment.
• Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Experience with configuration management systems like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Experience with networking load balancers such as Nginx, Netscaler, HAProxy, etc.
• A passion for documentation to avoid learning the same thing twice.
• A proactive attitude to fixing issues when you see something broken.
• Experience working in startups and being an early-stage employee.