PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring

Hey! PgDog is simply a mini database startup, based retired of SF, pinch a world team. We’re scaling the world’s astir celebrated database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is successful production, utilized by dozens of companies, ample and small. The problem is big, but truthful is the opportunity, and we’re hiring!

About the role

The jack of each trades. Rust, Postgres, a spot of infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and truthful overmuch more. You’ll build features that will spell straight into our customers hands, the time you vessel them.

With awesome powerfulness comes awesome responsibility. You’re meticulous, detail-oriented and are not acrophobic to return calculated risks. You constitute tests because you want to make judge the point works, not to cheque a box. You’re not acrophobic to tally codification successful production, connected existent data; aft all, that’s the only measurement to cognize thing really works.

Also, beautiful important these days: you don’t fto AI do the reasoning for you; you’re comfortable pinch and without it.

First week

You’ll hole a bug aliases vessel a cool feature. We’ll springiness it to 1 of our users aliases customers to effort correct away.

First month

You’ll get acquainted pinch beautiful overmuch each of our code. You’ll commencement coming up pinch your ain bug fixes and features.

Three months later

You’re designing our roadmap. You’re contributing to everything we’re doing: coding, talking pinch customers, and moreover uncovering america more! Things we severely want to build:

1. Advanced OLAP query engine. People don’t for illustration to rewrite their queries, truthful let’s make them conscionable activity pinch sharded Postgres! If you’re wondering really overmuch activity that is, cheque retired the Postgres SQL reference. All of it has to work!
2. In-place information redistribution: let’s make Postgres standard for illustration Cassandra/Elastic. Having the expertise to dynamically shard would beryllium ace cool and make it a push-button op.

If immoderate of this sounds ace hard…well, that’s because it is, but only connected the surface. We’re splitting this up into small, achievable tasks, and shipping them consecutive to prod!

Day to day

Mostly digging done the Postgres manual and building a distributed database, from scratch, utilizing first principles (and arsenic galore Wikipedia articles arsenic you need). Everything is written successful Rust, truthful that makes it easier. Type-safe, “fearless concurrency”, and an awesome unfastened root ecosystem wherever you tin find beautiful overmuch immoderate room we’ll need… and if you can’t, you tin build your ain and lend it backmost to the world.

Time divided is going to beryllium thing for illustration 30% bug fixes, 60% caller features, 10% infra glue.

The backstory

I did this astatine Instacart backmost successful 2020. Grew the institution 5x successful a fewer months, conscionable by making Postgres do things it wasn’t built for. If you make the database you already person conscionable work, group emotion it; cipher wants to migrate to Dynamo.

I’ve been coding successful Rust for adjacent to 10 years, moreover wrote my ain web framework for fun. PgDog started arsenic “something to do” while I was unemployed; 1 twelvemonth later, it’s mission-critical infra for immoderate beautiful superior people, truthful that’s cool.

Compensation

• 150k-225k / year
• 1-3% equity

Perks

• Health & dental, afloat covered
• Unlimited PTO
• If you’re successful SF Bay Area: coffee, dinner, hikes, motorcycle rides, etc.; I’m ever down to bent out! We tin besides locomotion my elephantine 90 lb canine (and now you cognize wherever the sanction “PgDog” comes from).