Senior Systems Engineer, Database

The role

You will build and evolve Pangolin, a bespoke analytical database. You will work with internal customers to define priorities and collaborate with the Infrastructure team on deployment and scale.

What you will do

• Build and evolve Pangolin, a tree-native, streaming system handling terabytes of customer data daily.
• Work closely with internal customers to define priorities, shape the roadmap, and deliver features.
• Collaborate with the broader Infrastructure team on deployment, reliability, and scale.
• Write clean, well-reasoned design docs and contribute to the long-term technical direction of the system.

Required qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Rust
• Deep systems programming fundamentals
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Strong backend engineering background
• Product-minded

Nice to have

• Experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale distributed backend systems
• Deep performance optimization experience
• Linux internals
• V8
• AWS (S3 & Lambda)

About the company

Antithesis runs entire software systems inside a deterministic simulation to identify root causes of issues. They are a well-funded and deeply technical company working on software reliability.