ROLE SPECIFICATION // 70N609•ACTIVELY_INTERVIEWINGYC COHORT // YC W24 // ENTERPRISE AI
Founding Distributed Systems Architect
YC
Y Combinator Verified IngestionYC W24 // ENTERPRISE AI
Direct from Decagon Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$190k - $250kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.75% - 1.5%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 24 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
PythonGoPostgreSQLKafkaWebSocketsRedisDocker
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Decagon builds human-like generative AI agents for enterprises like Eventbrite, Substack, and Bilt.
Current Technical Challenges & 90-Day Deliverables:
• Scale multi-region WebSockets relay cluster streaming sub-200ms bi-directional LLM voice and text dialogue.
• Eliminate database write contention across high-throughput Kafka consumer groups logging millions of live conversations.
• Implement real-time automated guardrail evaluation engines operating in-line without adding perceptional audio latency.
• Design self-healing circuit breakers for multi-provider LLM failover with zero customer-facing drops.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
Architectural Screen30m
Conversation with Jesse (CEO) and lead architect about real-time distributed audio and state sync.
2
Streaming Pipeline Design60m
System design of an ultra-low latency WebSocket streaming hub handling 100k concurrent audio sessions.
3
Paid 1-Day Trial PR1 Day
Paid trial PR ($1,000) optimizing an event consumer pipeline in our sandbox cluster.
4
Offer Lock24h
Definitive offer with guaranteed base salary and transparent cap table equity breakdown.
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: BUILDER DOSSIER