We are looking for a Systems Software Engineer to join our Proxy Team.

The Proxy Team designs and builds the infrastructure used by client applications to connect to the Neon database. This comprises all aspects, from writing network endpoints for various protocols, load balancing, authentication, deployment, monitoring and alerting, and much more. We mostly use Rust to write our proxy components.

You will:

• Join an experienced team and contribute to Neon Proxy
• Participate in the design and implementation of our proxy infrastructure
• Write low-level networking system code
• Expand our footprint by interviewing and hiring great software engineers
• Drive excellence through the team and implement the world's best practices
• Participate in on-call rotation

We're looking for a senior-level engineer who has

• At least 4 years of production experience in Software engineering
• Practical experience with Rust programming language (1+ year)
• Experience writing networked systems
• Passion for building systems software. Performance engineering and distributed systems are topics that excite you!
• Experience with open-source projects and developing publicly is a plus
• Passion for joining a fast-paced, early-stage startup
• Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

It would be great if you have:

• Some background in databases or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning, and workload optimization) and distributed systems
• Extensive experience with low-level backend programming languages (C, C++, etc.)

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We're a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

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