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US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the architecture and development of the Hercules Database, backend services, and SDKs.
  • Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use across data-intensive, multi-tenant systems.
  • Build and operate reliable hosting infrastructure with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience.

Rust System Design Data Modeling Distributed Systems Infrastructure

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$180,000–$300,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build backend services in Rust for high-volume financial transactions with strong guarantees.
  • Own features end-to-end, from spec to production, and set technical direction for your area.
  • Integrate with external partners and improve engineering quality across observability and security.

MoonPay builds the operating system for value movement, enabling enterprises to fund, tokenize, trade, and spend digital assets. With top rankings in Fortune's Crypto 100 and Forbes' Best Startup Employers, they foster a high-velocity, high-accountability culture.

$139,200–$235,200/yr
Canada United States Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
  • Improve deployment, monitoring, and operations using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud services from AWS or GCP.
  • Automate operational work, strengthen observability, and manage production issues to reduce single points of failure.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate digital transformation. Trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by shared values and continuous knowledge exchange.

US

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed database and storage systems.
  • Build performance-critical infrastructure using Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems programming languages.
  • Operate production systems and troubleshoot complex reliability, performance, and availability issues.

This company builds and operates large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure with a focus on low latency and high availability. They offer a fully remote, multinational work environment and comprehensive healthcare coverage.

Eastern Europe

  • Lead the architecture and scaling of high-throughput data services and ingestion pipelines.
  • Build ultra-low-latency, memory-efficient data infrastructure using Rust.
  • Design resilient APIs, data contracts, and schemas, and integrate with cloud warehouses and lakehouses.

Nagarro is a digital product engineering company that builds products, services, and experiences that inspire and excite. With 18,000+ experts across 39 countries, they have a dynamic and non-hierarchical work culture.

Romania 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed data systems handling large-scale ingestion and processing.
  • Drive architectural decisions and take end-to-end ownership of critical components.
  • Collaborate with product teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust technical solutions.

Our partner builds a large-scale, multi-chain data platform that ingests, models, and delivers blockchain data to users and developers. They are a remote-first, distributed team with a strong engineering culture focused on ownership and collaboration.

Europe US 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Turn product requirements into technical requirements, model the domain, define interfaces, and navigate trade-offs.
  • Break large problems into work others can own and sequence delivery for early value.
  • Drive high-impact architectural decisions across the data platform and own components end to end.

Dune is a collaborative multi-chain analytics platform that makes crypto data accessible to developers, analysts, and investors. The team of ~60 employees works across Europe and eastern US timezones with a fully remote-first approach.

Global

  • Build integrations that unlock Luna’s next capabilities
  • Design infrastructure that scales to hundreds of thousands of individual practice servers
  • Engineer reliability into the system: data consistency, idempotency, retries, error handling, observability

Praxipal builds an AI-powered healthcare admin workforce to address the global shortage of medical staff. The company is backed by one of Europe's leading investors and is one of the fastest growing healthtech startups in Germany, with a team that has previously worked at top tech companies.

$192,000–$192,000/yr
Global

  • Lead large-scale Sensor Platform initiatives in collaboration with product, infrastructure, and engineering peers.
  • Own root cause analysis and postmortems for complex production issues, ensuring durable fixes.
  • Establish standards for documentation, test harnesses, and observability across the codebase.

Dragos is the global leader in OT cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services to protect critical infrastructure. The team is remote-first, mission-driven, and built on authenticity, transparency, and trust.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
United States Canada Europe Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Write reliable, secure, scalable code for real-time authorization and fraud-prevention systems.
  • Build customer-facing features like rules improvements, velocity controls, and fraud tooling.
  • Own projects from planning to launch and participate on on-call rotation.

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. We are a team of 170+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City.

US

  • Build core data platform capabilities, developing services and APIs for data access, query execution, ingestion, and synchronization.
  • Make integrations reusable by building connector frameworks that support different systems without bespoke implementations.
  • Own execution reliability by building orchestration, retries, checkpointing, and observability for predictable workload recovery.

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize AI by building multi-agent systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP and Salesforce. Backed by top venture capital firms and built by leaders from Meta AI and Google Research, they move fast and operate with extreme ownership.

$193,461–$291,000/yr
US

  • Work on core infrastructure powering Arbitrum, tackling distributed systems challenges and optimizing performance.
  • Collaborate with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams at the cutting edge of blockchain technology.
  • Establish backend architectural standards and drive technical roadmap for complex distributed systems.

Offchain Labs is a pioneer in blockchain scalability and security, building the Arbitrum stack that powers the leading Ethereum scaling solution. Backed by $124 million in funding, our team of thinkers and doers embraces new challenges and pushes boundaries.

Data Engineer

Dune
Global 7w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build the control plane for our curated data lifecycle, tackling orchestration, backfills, restatements, retries, and partial failure recovery.
  • Decide dataset-by-dataset whether the answer is a model, service, or job, and own that architecture through production.
  • Work across Go, Kotlin, Rust, Python, and SQL, choosing the right tool rather than the familiar one.

Dune's mission is to make onchain finance observable. We are a tight knit team of ~50 hardworking people spread across Europe and eastern US timezones, having an outsized impact on the industry.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Own features through the full lifecycle: from architecture, implementation, and docs to deployment and monitoring.
  • Build rigorous conformance and adversarial tests to ensure implementation compatibility.
  • Execute safe protocol upgrades and resolve complex availability/performance issues.

OP Labs builds Optimism, a blockchain network that powers next-generation financial infrastructure, used by hundreds of companies including Sony, Coinbase, and Uniswap. It is a small team backed by $178M from a16z and Paradigm, with a fast-paced, mission-driven culture centered in NYC.

$145,500–$235,400/yr
US

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
  • Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.

LaunchDarkly provides a platform that helps engineering teams release software and AI with speed, safety, and control using feature flags and observability. The company is growing and emphasizes teamwork, humility, openness, curiosity, and inclusive collaboration.

North America 6w PTO

  • Design and build the underlying storage system for a general purpose data platform with OLAP and OTLP capabilities.
  • Take ownership of ingestion, query planning, distributed execution, and storage formats for a multi-tenant SaaS database.
  • Partner across teams to build APIs and interfaces for AI agents and internal applications to retrieve data.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability and optimize telemetry at scale. They are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Take deep ownership of systems and product areas, becoming the go-to technical expert for what you own.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services across distributed systems.
  • Build agentically with AI coding tools, staying at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices.

Postscript is an AI messaging platform for Shopify brands, helping e-commerce marketers drive revenue through SMS marketing and AI features. Backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, the company has been fully remote since 2018 and serves 20,000+ Shopify brands with a culture of ownership and AI-first development.