Systems Software Engineer (Storage) at Neon

About Us

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

What You’ll Do Here

• Build a custom storage system to replace our earlier usage of RocksDB.
• Build a custom file format for storing database pages and write ahead log records.
• Create distributed consensus protocols to provide durability while minimizing latency
• Replace Postgres’s traditional file-based storage with our cloud storage engine
• Build a Postgres protocol proxy (similar to pgbouncer)
• Sandbox Postgres using seccomp.

You Have

• Expertise in programming languages like Rust (plus), Python, C/C++, Java
• Experience using databases. Knowledge of database internals is a plus.
• Passion for building systems software. Performance engineering and distributed systems are topics that excite you!

Our Team

• We are distributed team of 30 people working from North America, Europe, and the Middle East
• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals
• We have experienced Postgres hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias)
• CEO is a serial entrepreneur, co-founded SingleStore (MemSQL) and scaled it from 0 to $40m in ARR. Holds Ph.D. in CS, several patents, and was a world medalist in ACM programming contests
• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

• Top-tier investors voted for our vision with their dollars:We raised $24m in Seed/Series A from legendary Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund
• Guillermo Rauch, Elad Gil, Neha Narkhede, Jordan Walke and other angels backed us up
• Leigh Marie Braswell (Founders Fund, former pm & early eng at scale.ai) and Quentin Clark (Managing Director at General Catalyst, former CTO of Dropbox and CVP at Microsoft) are on our Board

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
• We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, med insurance, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Mexico)