Founding Product Engineer

About Artie

Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real-time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams.

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Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast.

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We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode.

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About the role

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We're a small, dynamic team based in San Francisco, and we're looking for a founding engineer to join us. In this in-person role, you'll have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, interact directly with our customers, and play a vital part in shaping the future of our product.

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This is a challenging and dynamic role where you'll be working at the forefront of distributed systems, infrastructure and data engineering.

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What you should expect and examples of day-day tasks:

• Talking to customers (who are technical and have an engineering background) to streamline their workflows and improve the UX of our product
• Building new features into our product such as column exclusion, encryption, schema change alerts and more
• Improving our internal tooling and build automation to make it easier to ship features and manage our infrastructure

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What we are looking for

• Strong fundamentals in computer science or related field
• 4+ years of experience with web development and working at startups
• Pragmatic and care more about building the right thing vs. being right
• Comfortable jumping around the stack and wearing different hats
• Someone that is passionate about building products that are easy to use and extensible
• Proficiency writing in Go is preferred, but not necessary
• Happy to work in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco’s Financial District with the rest of the team.

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Tech stack

• Frontend: TypeScript (React and Material UI)
• Backend: Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka and Elasticsearch
• Infra: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm on GCP and AWS

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Compensation & Benefits

• $150K–$215K base salary, depending on experience
• Competitive equity package, 0.50-1.0%
• Healthcare, 401(k), unlimited PTO
• Lunch & dinner provided
• Visa sponsorship available