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

About the role

FOUNDING ENGINEER

LOCATION: BANGALORE [WEWORK EMBASSY TECH VILLAGE https://wework.co.in/bangalore/bellandur/embassy-techvillage/] (NO REMOTE/HYBRID PLEASE)

ABOUT OODLE

Oodle’s mission is to build an iconic observability company! Oodle enables developer and SRE teams to handle 10x more data at a tenth of the price. Oodle is disrupting Observability just like snowflake has disrupted data warehousing. We are taking a unique and fundamentally new architectural approach to Observability by building a unified experience for logs, metrics and traces. We’re a seed funded company backed by the top tier VCs in the Observability, and Infra/AI spaces. We deeply care about diverse teams, especially diversity of thought and perspective.

The founders https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirangollu/ are serial entrepreneurs (ex-Rubrik, AWS, YC, and IIT Alumni) who have built world class teams over the last decade. Our founders have helped Rubrik scale from <5M from a single product line to $600M across multiple product lines. We’ve worked at Rubrik, AWS, ran a YC-backed observability startup https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/neptune-io, and have built and launched products like AWS S3, DynamoDB and made open source contributions in CockroachDB https://www.rubrik.com/blog/author/v/vijay-karthik. We’re a really unique team - we are our own customers, and lived through these pain points for 8+ years - both as a buyer of observability at a high scale company for 4.5 years (Rubrik) and as a company builder selling to the same buyer (4+ years at YC startup).

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Founding Engineer on the team, you will get to:

• 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

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 Haves:

• 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.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Unlimited PTO

• Top tier health, medical, and dental benefits

• Meaningful equity ownership

• Stunning colleagues https://oodle.ai/company

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