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Senior Distributed Query Engine Engineer
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Direct from Axiom Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$180k - $235kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.25% - 0.75%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 24 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
GoRustClickHousePostgreSQLKubernetesAWS
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Axiom delivers 100% observability data retention at 1/10th the cost of legacy APM providers.
Current Technical Challenges & 90-Day Deliverables:
• Engineer vectorized columnar query operators in Go and Rust capable of scanning 100GB/sec per CPU core.
• Construct intelligent Bloom filters and segment indexers minimizing S3 GET operations for multi-tenant analytical queries.
• Scale distributed query orchestrators aggregating partial results from 200+ worker nodes with p99 < 350ms.
• Refactor memory allocators to eliminate GC pause jitter under massive concurrent query spikes.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
HN Architecture Screen30m
Conversation with Neil (CTO) discussing columnar storage, query planning, and past distributed systems.
2
Columnar Engine Deep Dive60m
Technical review covering SIMD vectorization, memory-mapped files, and distributed shuffle stages.
3
Paid 1-Day Trial PR1 Day
Compensated trial ($900) profiling and optimizing a query operator benchmark.
4
Founder Offer Lock24h
Transparent offer with guaranteed base salary and stock option grant.
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