PipelineDB is hiring systems hackers in San Francisco

Hey Everybody,

We're a fairly new and well funded Y-Combinator startup called PipelineDB
<http://www.pipelinedb.com> that's building a streaming-SQL database, which
is a fork of PostgreSQL 9.4. We have an amazing group of investors and
advisors, including Josh Berkus, who heads up the PostgreSQL project.
We're looking to add a couple of founding engineers to our team early this
year so if you or anybody you know who is interested to discuss this,
please shoot us a note at jobs(at)pipelinedb(dot)com(dot) We have 5-10 large
enterprise Alpha customers signed up already and are about to release the
first version of PipelineDB, so it's an exciting time to get involved with
a high-caliber team and promising startup.

I've posted the full position description below and look forward to hearing
from you!

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

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Jeff Ferguson
President and Co-Founder
<http://www.pipelinedb.com>

San Francisco, CA - Full Time Only

We're on a mission to build a new type of database for a modern world in
which information is constantly moving, and moving fast. PipelineDB runs
SQL queries continuously on large volumes of streaming data, giving
companies the capability to easily develop scalable, realtime applications
and services using only a familiar SQL interface. No application code is
required.

This inherently involves solving a lot of big problems, many of which are
novel. We’re looking for creative engineers who appreciate the value and
freedom of choosing their own projects, approaches, and working with other
top talent in a low distraction, streamlined work environment. Our small
team has backgrounds from Berkeley, MIT, Facebook, Locu and AdRoll, and
we're all doing exactly what we want to be doing: building a groundbreaking
new product out of thin air.

We are well funded by top investors including SV Angel, Susa Ventures, Data
Collective, Paul Buchheit, and more.

If you’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this, please send your
resume and a quick blurb about yourself to jobs(at)pipelinedb(dot)com(dot)

About the position:

As an early stage engineer you'll ultimately own a very large part of the
product. Which part of the product you take charge of depends on where your
interests are, but there are several different potential areas of focus.
You'll be entrusted to make sound architectural decisions as well as
implement your vision effectively. We review each others' code for quality,
awareness, and learning, so you'll spend some time contributing your
valuable perspective to those efforts as well, although the vast majority
of your time will be spent designing and building your own projects.

There is also an optional opportunity to help produce technical and
marketing content, speak at conferences, interact with customers, and work
as a developer evangelist.

Requirements:

* Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related field

* You've worked with large C/C++ systems in a Linux environment and are
highly effective at navigating them

* You understand the difference between good code and correct code, and you
care about testing

* Strong understanding of concurrency

* Strong system-level debugging skills--you are not intimidated by the
obscurest of nondeterministic behaviors and race conditions

* Strong understanding of CS theory--you are able to translate theoretical
concepts and academic research into practical code

* You have a habit of figuring out how something works before asking
someone to explain it to you, regardless of how deep the rabbit hole goes

* Strong understanding of how performant storage systems work

Bonus points:

* Experience with/contributions to PostgreSQL, Storm, Kafka, Samza,
Kinesis, or Esper

* Experience with database internals

* Experience building distributed systems

* Experience building realtime systems

Benefits:

* Full medical/dental/vision insurance

* No set work hours--work when you feel smart

* Choose your own setup

* No vacation policy other than that it is strongly encouraged

* Large equity ownership

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jobs(at)pipelinedb(dot)com