Founding Engineer (Distributed Systems) - Oodle - Bangalore, India

What you will do

Disrupt a large existing market with deep technical insights. You’ll be on the ground floor of creating a product like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Rubrik, DataBricks, Confluent, CockroachDB, DynamoDB, ClickHouse, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Aurora (from scratch).
Wear multiple hats – rapid experimentation to find customer needs, and building software, talking to customers, eliminating ambiguity, and focusing/deciding on the things that matter.
Optimize our software stack and database engine for cost, performance and scale. Every CPU cycle counts!
Set the foundation for company culture and help grow the team

What you need

About you

You are a self-starter, passionate, and enjoy solving hard technical problems. You're a missionary. You've stellar work ethic, integrity and commitment. You crave working with stunning colleagues, cherish your entrepreneurial mindset, and would like to start a new company yourself one day. Our goal is to motivate and challenge people to do their best work.

The best way to launch a startup is to take part in a top-notch startup and learn it all first hand from a seasoned/repeat founding team! Bottom line, if you have a limitless drive, startup mindset and like to win, we want to talk to you - come make history!

Must Haves

Entrepreneurial mindset – you can’t stop thinking about starting a company one day or want to be a part of journey creating something extraordinary that everyone thought was barely possible
5-8+ years of relevant work experience
Experience architecting and developing large scale distributed systems, database systems or storage systems
Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, Scala, Python, Rust

Nice to have

Architecting observability systems from ground up is a huge plus
Familiarity with one or more of the following areas: distributed systems, storage systems, caching systems, LLMs, and AI.