Typically 5+ years as a professional software engineer. Proven track record of success as a software engineer. We’re looking for candidates with experience or interest in any of:
Linux systems - namespaces, file descriptors, Unix sockets, mounts, networking, and process isolation.
Container runtimes, orchestration, or code execution platforms.
Filesystem and file storage, including POSIX behavior, content-addressed storage, and crash recovery.
Low-level system primitives in Rust or Go.
Debugging: building focused reproducers for kernel, runtime, and storage issues, and using logs, traces, metrics, and tests to isolate root causes.
Your abilities matter, not your education or exactly where you’ve worked. We just need you to show us that you have accumulated the foundational skills and knowledge needed to succeed.
This role is broad, not specialized. While your main focus will be on our backend job processing system and code execution engines, you’ll work across our stack, from infrastructure changes to the frontend. You don’t need to have experience in all of these areas, but you will need to be excited to pitch in anywhere when needed, with the support of your teammates. This allows us to be more effective as a team, and provides a lot of opportunities for you to learn.
We’re focused on the most important problems, not the most interesting ones. Your time and energy are limited, so in order to succeed you’ll need to spend it where it will make a difference. We view technologies as a means to an end, and stick to simple, common tools - Ruby, Rails, React, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Postgres, Redis, AWS CDK, and Docker.
Engineer productivity is hugely important to us. We invest heavily in developer experience and care deeply about things like build times and flakey tests. We’re constantly evaluating and refining our use of LLMs to make us more effective in building our product.
We work healthily and sustainably. We work reasonable hours, we take our holidays and we plan our workloads realistically. No matter how excited we get by a project, it’s more important to not get burnt out from overwork.
Your contributions will be obvious. On a small team like ours, you don’t have to spend a ton of time and energy making sure your work is seen - your impact will be clear to everyone.
We’re building an inclusive, supportive team. We have a wonderfully wide spectrum of colleagues at Tines, and we treat them all with kindness and respect - we expect that you will too. We don’t hire people that treat their colleagues badly, no matter how talented they are.
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