HyperDX is looking for our first Founding Engineer to help build the next
evolution of developer-first, open-source observability. You're someone who's
excited to improve how developers fix production issues and rethink how
observability products are built - from the ground up.
We're still incredibly early on our journey, but have already captured a huge
amount of interest from the wider developer community, from reaching 5k Github
stars in a few weeks post-launch, to the hundreds of teams signing up for
HyperDX in the cloud.
If you haven't yet, you can learn a bit about our product and code via our
repo: <https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx>
The DX in our name stands for Developer Experience - and optimizing for
developers is core to our entire product and business.
### The Role
* You'll be hands-on building out any and all parts of the product, with a focus on building the best developer experience possible to bring a developer from incident or bug, to root cause and resolution.
* You'll be working with the founders on everything from vision and roadmap, to meaty scaling challenges and UX/DX design sessions.
* You'll be directly engaging our amazing community of customers, open source contributors, and users - closely listening to their feedback and actioning on them quickly or giving them a hand when they get stuck. Most of them live directly in our Slack or Discord community.
* You'll be solving hard technical problems, from building durable SDKs for a variety of languages/platforms (from Node, Deno, RoR, Java, etc.) to helping effectively scale out our ingestion pipeline and Clickhouse cluster.
### About You
* You love thinking about how developer tools can be made better - rather than settling for the status quo.
* 5+ years of experience as an Engineer, preferably leading the technical direction of a developer tool product.
* Strong proficiency in Typescript for both our Next.js frontend and Express backend.
* Proficient in SQL to do query generation for our Clickhouse DB.
* Comfortable with Docker/containers and familiar with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
* Experienced in both frontend and backend development. We expect the bulk of our work to be on the backend, but you'll need to be comfortable to implement a solid first cut of the UI on your own.
* You're comfortable with ambiguity - you love to take big ideas and execute on them independently, but can collaborate with the team and customers when needed.
* You love to move quickly and ship iteratively to solve customer problems, while acknowledging the explicit tradeoffs being made.
* You love building alongside an open source community.
### Bonus Points
* Deep experience with distributed systems, particularly scaling high-volume event ingestion pipelines and columnar data stores (ex. Clickhouse, Druid).
* Opinionated in observability tooling today - and know where they can get 10x better.
* Curious about other languages and platforms, to help build/maintain our next iteration of integrations for anything from Rust to PHP.
### About Us
Currently it’s just Michael and Warren - the founders of HyperDX. We're deeply
technical with a passion for building great developer tools on top of solid
and scalable infrastructure.
You can learn more about our tech here:
<https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>. In
production we're running on AWS and Kubernetes.
We think there's an incredibly rewarding experience ahead in re-thinking how
developers are empowered when they're tasked with their next bug ticket or
paged for their next incident.
HyperDX focuses on B2B, Developer Tools, and Cloud Infrastructure. Their
company has offices in San Francisco. They have a small team that's between
1-10 employees.
You can view their website at <https://hyperdx.io> or find them on
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperdx/).
