ROLE SPECIFICATION // IOXLMO•ACTIVELY_INTERVIEWINGHACKER NEWS // WHO'S HIRING FEED
Staff Distributed Storage Architect
YC
Y Combinator Verified IngestionHN // WHO IS HIRING
Direct from Tigris Data Founders • Work at a Startup Feed
Mandatory Verified Compensation & Equity Range
Guaranteed Base Salary$195k - $260kUSD / YEAR • RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Direct Equity Grant0.5% - 1.25%STANDARD 4-YR VEST // 1-YR CLIFF
Anti-Ghosting SLA< 20 HoursHEARTBEAT VERIFIED LIVE
Production Stack Specification
GoFoundationDBRaftPostgreSQLFly.ioDockerLinux
The Engineering Mission & Technical Challenges
Tigris is the modern developer data platform providing globally distributed object storage without regional configuration.
Current Technical Challenges & 90-Day Deliverables:
• Scale multi-region FoundationDB metadata layers supporting billions of objects with serializable ACID transactions.
• Build smart edge caching and intelligent prefetching algorithms routing read traffic to the nearest regional NVMe node.
• Maintain zero-downtime data migration and live re-balancing across multi-cloud bare metal providers.
• Harden high-throughput S3 API parsers achieving sub-10ms time-to-first-byte globally.
Transparent Interview Roadmap
1
Storage Architecture Screen30m
Direct conversation with founders about FoundationDB transactional guarantees and global object distribution.
2
Distributed Consensus Review60m
System design of a multi-region Raft replication protocol handling cross-continental network partitions.
3
Paid 1-Day Trial PR1 Day
Paid trial ($1,000) contributing a benchmark and fix to the Tigris S3 proxy layer.
4
Founding Offer Lock24h
Definitive offer with guaranteed base salary and transparent equity allocation.
APPLICATION PROTOCOL: BUILDER DOSSIER