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| Summary | Details |
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Employment | Full-Time |
Location | Distributed North America, Toronto, SF/Bay Area |
About Source | At Source, we aim to revolutionize developer data management for the open web. Our mission is to simplify data handling for edge devices, local-first software, and distributed infrastructures, allowing developers to unleash their creativity and build world-changing tools that realize the open web’s full potential. Our suite of new technologies work together to make it easy for developers to ship edge and local-first software. We empower developers to create software and devices that seamlessly communicate, offer granular data control, and secure data cryptographically to ensure trust. Join us in shaping the future of data management and the open web. |
Salary | Minimum expected salary: $125,000 + equity |
Shape the future of the Open Web
Source is the developer data management infrastructure for the open web. With an expected 75% of the data generated by humanity to be at the edge, developers at organizations of all sizes face complex challenges in managing distributed data. Our database, DefraDB, along with our Trust Protocol, SourceHub, provides developers with the tools to create and deploy software for edge environments. With native cryptographic primitives for data security, granular data governance, and interoperability and portability across the edge. We address the crucial aspects of edge data management, empowering developers to introduce the next wave of local-first software and edge AI for smart city, industry 4.0, and beyond.
About the Role
We are looking for engineers who are passionate about creating beautiful, idiomatic, and ergonomic developer interfaces to build an amazing developer experience for our database and blockchain.
As a Developer Experience lead, you will be responsible for the end-to-end experience of developers working with our database and blockchain. This experience consists of tools and libraries that developers use to connect to, operate, and use our suite of technologies. You will champion our mission to increase developer adoption and satisfaction by providing a reliable enjoyable interface for developers and other end-users.
Working closely with our CTO, Database and Protocol Leads, you will be part of a collaborative culture striving to make developer data management for edge/local compute. We're looking for someone who will take ownership over designing, writing, and supporting Open Source libraries and tools. You'll be expected to work on our internally-built SDK and CLI, as well as contribute to open-source adapters and plugins for language ORMs and drivers.
You'll be working on
- Contribute to the growth of the open-source developer ecosystem. You bring your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone.
- Develop, maintain, and ship an idiomatic set of language SDKs for the DefraDB API
- Develop and maintain the DefraDB CLI
- Work with the community of DefraDB users to understand their use cases and help create frictionless integrations with DefraDB, for their applications, and their development workflows.
- Work with strategic partners in the modern application development ecosystem to advance developer experience for DefraDB.
You're most likely to succeed in this role if you
- A passion for working on complex technical products and have exposure to topics such as distributed/decentralized systems, concurrency control, data replication, file systems, or NoSQL processing.
- Experience building beautiful, idiomatic, and easy-to-use developer experiences, such as SDKs, CLIs, APIs, or UIs
- Interest in creating tools that maximally relieve developer pain in connecting to, operating.
- Experience as an application developer and database user. You might have developed Jamstack applications, serverless applications, or conventional web apps.
- Comfort using programming languages like Go, Rust, Java, Python, Javascript, or Typescript. Polyglot programmers are preferred since you will be working with several programming languages as you work to build out a suite of SDKs.
- Familiarity with GraphQL language and tools
- Experience building front-end UI and tooling, consumable by developers using React, Vue, or Angular
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
- Have participated in Open Source software development and/or communities
- Can make pragmatic design tradeoffs, balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
- Experience building collaborative relationships with your colleagues. You enjoy being part of the code review process and partnering with your teammates on challenging problems.
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
Success in this role means
In the first month, you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of DefraDB and complementary technologies. We believe that it's essential for you to take this first month to become familiar with our technology, company, and our culture.
As our team grows you will have the opportunity to not only shape the direction of development for DefraDB but work alongside the founders to shape the future of the project and Source ecosystem as a whole. We want our users to have a phenomenal experience using our product and you play a crucial role in making DefraDB a joy to use. We also offer technical training and experienced mentorship to help you learn and grow into whatever you wish it to be.