Title: Software Engineer 

Location: San Francisco, CA

Reporting Structure: Reports to the CTO 

Company Description

Our client is pioneering real-time data replication from databases to warehouses, enabling sub-minute latency at scale. Unlike traditional batch ETL solutions, they leverage change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to sync data continuously and efficiently.

The product launched in 2023 and already processes over 10 billion rows per month. The company is backed by top-tier investors including General Catalyst, Pathlight (fka Exponent Founders Capital), and several notable angels from the data and infrastructure space.

Quick facts:

• Founded: 2023
• YC Batch: S23
• Team size: 8

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you will:

• Talking to customers (who are technical and have an engineering background) to streamline their workflows and improve the UX of our product
• Building new features into our product such as column exclusion, encryption, schema change alerts and more
• Improving our internal tooling and build automation to make it easier to ship features and manage our infrastructure

Is this you?

• Strong fundamentals in computer science or related field
• 4+ years of experience with web development and working at startups
• Pragmatic and care more about building the right thing vs. being right
• Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
• Someone that is passionate about building products that are easy to use and extensible
• Proficiency writing in Go is preferred, but not necessary
• Happy to work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco’s Financial District with the rest of the team.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering

• Prior exposure to distributed systems and real-time data infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with tools in their stack:
• Frontend: TypeScript (React, Material UI)
• Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch
• Infrastructure: Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP, AWS

#Perks

• Competitive salary ($150K–$215K) and meaningful equity (0.50%–1.00%)
• Visa sponsorship available
• Opportunity to work as an early engineer at a YC-backed startup with direct impact on product direction and technical architecture
• Daily collaboration with a tight-knit founding team in San Francisco