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You’ll have significant influence over the technical and product direction.\nWe’ll expect you to be able to:\nBe oncall for a production system to help our customers if anything goes wrong.\n\nBuild out never-before-seen capabilities in a storage service\n\nDesign distributed systems interactions for atomicity and idempotency\n\nDeploy infrastructure and generalize infrastructure across different clouds\n\nOperate through changing customer requirements with lots of ambiguity\n\nLead teams of engineers through complex decisions and PR feedback\n\nWho are you?\nYou have 6+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems (flexible).\n\nIdeally, you’ve worked at a startup before, so you know how chaotic this time can be.\n\nYou’ve successfully resolved disagreements at work before, and you understand that the highest priority is helping our customers - not being right.\n\nYou’re comfortable debugging problems that occur as a result of failures in multiple, different systems, using tools like metrics and logs.\n\nYou’ve been paged at 3am to solve a complex production issue before.\n\nYou’re knowledgeable about distributed systems: you get how consensus works, you know how to scale systems, and you know what pitfalls in API design to avoid.\n\nYou’re familiar with how to optimize the performance of a system, including a general sense of how much latency different operations take, and what kind of bottlenecks could lead to a reduction in potential throughput.\n\nMost of all, you know how computers work from the silicon up. Someone once asked you in an interview “what happens when you go to Google.com ”, and there wasn’t enough time in the interview to talk about all of the steps.\n\nWhy join us?\nBy building the highest-performance, simplest storage product in the cloud, we have a great chance of changing how the world builds the next-generation of applications (and with AI, more applications will be written in the next 5 years than ever before). We’d love for your to be a part of our journey.\nHow to join?\nShow us that you’re knowledgeable about the space that we’re working in on your application. It’s up to you how you do this, but one potential way is by answering one of the following questions:\nHow do you think our system works?\n\nWhat do you think our biggest technical challenge is?\n\nWhat would make our system not work?\n\nAbout Archil\nArchil is on a mission to change how developers build applications in the cloud, by building the next, default storage platform in the cloud.\nOver the past 15 years, S3 has become the default way to store inactive data sets in the cloud, but the next-generation of AI and analytics applications need to actively process more data than ever before. We're solving this problem by building the first Volume storage product that's as fast as EBS, infinitely scaleable like S3, and connects to existing data sets in S3 and other repositories. Our customers choose Archil because this architecture radically simplifies how they think about working with their data (every application becomes stateless, no cold-start latencies, and no need to worry about checkpointing or backup). Hacker News agrees.\nHunter, the founder, has 10 years of experience building and operating cloud storage, including helping to launch Amazon's EFS product and working on bleeding-edge storage at Netflix. He started the company after working with hundreds of customers across these roles, and identifying a need for a new kind of storage product.\nWe're fully in-person in San Francisco. 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