Founding Platform Engineer

About Converge

We're building agents that buy and scale ads for consumer brands like Hims & Hers. They automate all parts of the growth engine: launching, scaling, learning from results, and producing new ads to close the loop.

Today they make over 90% of all budget changes in the ad account, managing $1M+ in daily budgets. They learn from user feedback and proactively look for more work to automate.

We're a team of 13, in-person in New York City, and you'd be our first platform engineer. We scaled to $3M in ARR, serving 200+ customers, and have raised $5.7M from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and the founders of PostHog and Algolia.

What you'll do

We’re looking for a founding engineer to own and build out the platform powering our agents.

We are just 3 product engineers and already operate systems most companies don’t touch until much later:

• Handling $6 billion in annual revenue
• Ingesting 20 TB every month
• 10,000 jobs / s at peak
• Queries join and aggregate 100s of GBs in seconds, fully real-time.

This is not a typical SRE, systems, or backend engineering role. You will:

• Drive your own roadmap
• Go super deep on the hardest infra and systems problems
• Work with product engineers to ship product that scales to the world’s largest consumer brands.
• Automate yourself with AI. Use coding agents for everything you do: hillclimbing benchmarks, profiling queries, monitoring, debugging incidents, writing code, ...

Some examples of what you’ll be working on:

• Build out services that can ingest up to a trillion jobs / month
• Stare at esoteric Clickhouse CPU and memory flamegraphs
• Figure out how to materialize our attribution dataset to scale joining and aggregating billions of rows in realtime
• Build a SQL dialect for our agents to directly query the data in Converge

This role is NOT for you if

• You prefer to architect systems over building them. You will implement everything you design. Expect to be coding, a lot.
• You want to own "big tech" style, multi-quarter migrations. We work with daily and weekly timelines.
• You prefer working remote over in-person. We all love working from our NYC office.

What we’re looking for

• Very strong coding skills. We mostly work with Python, you should be familiar with more performant languages.
• Deep understanding of databases (OLTP & OLAP, we work with Postgres & Clickhouse)
• Experience at scale. You’ve seen first hand where things fall over in data-heavy systems.
• You’re pragmatic and customer-minded. The best solutions involve a deep understanding of what customers need and of what’s not needed.

Compensation

• Salary: $180K - $240K + equity: 0.3% - 0.5%.
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Pension & 401(k) contributions.

Interviews

1. Intro call15 min

   We learn about your motivations to join Converge, determine why you'd be a great fit, and answer any questions you have for us.

2. Founder chat45 min

   We dive into your past experiences to learn what motivates you and what you're like to work with.

3. Technical1h

   We work through a typical infrastructure problem we face at Converge.

4. Superday1 day

   Join us for a day to actually build something! You get to meet the team, we get to meet you, it's great. (fully paid)

Note: This can all be done in 2 days. If you want to move quickly, we do too. Our founding engineer was on a plane to meet us just days after our first call.