We are looking for a software engineer with a passion for auth, billing, and orchestration.
Our thing is making developers’ lives easier with the fastest way to deploy applications globally. We take code, transparently build it into containers, and run it inside MicroVMs - and this with zero-config from developers for dozens of runtimes and frameworks.
The Koyeb Serverless Platform is written in Golang. We use Nomad for the orchestration, Firecracker / cloud-hypervisor for the virtualization, and Cilium for the network stack. We built a multi-region Service Mesh with Envoy to provide seamless networking to our users.
User applications are automatically built into containers from a simple git repository, we manage all the build and continuous deployment process on our BareMetal servers.
If this sounds interesting, keep reading!
What you’ll be doing
As a Software Engineer, you will be working on our APIs and on the distributed system. Our distributed system is the core of our product, our users rely on it to continuously deploy applications and for the continuity of their operations.
This role is focused on the team and billing management capabilities and will also involve implementing new orchestration features to provide the fastest deployment experience to developers.
You will be working on all components needed to implement team & orchestration features: Golang APIs using gRPC, Stripe and BareMetal hypervisors with Nomad and Firecracker MicroVMs.
You will:
develop new core features related to networking, serverless, and orchestration
contribute to the design and implementation of a large-scale distributed system running across continents
design, implement and maintain user-friendly APIs
measure and instrument features you develop with reliability and product impact in mind
debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
participate in 24/7 on-call rotation, our platform never sleeps
You will be part of our pizza-sized engineering team of 7 people building the complete Koyeb cloud platform. To clarify: it’s not one of the engineering teams, it’s the engineering team.
You will be working daily with our co-founders Bastien, CTO, and Edouard, CPO.
You’ll succeed if you:
- Design and implement advanced collaboration features and key billing capabilities like:
1. SSO with Google and 2FA
2. Budget / spending limits
3. Billing of new features
- Integrate new orchestration capabilities to the platform:
1. Deployment rollback
2. Postgres scale-to-zero
3. Database backups
Constantly improve reliability and security of our orchestration technology relying on Nomad and Firecracker
Contribute to the strategy with new insights on potential new features.
Participate to on-call and to maintaining a 99.99% availability
You
As a general rule, if you join us, independent of the position, you should be comfortable with the following description of yourself. You:
have an international mindset and think global
are looking for a fast-paced environment
are ambitious and believe small teams can have a huge impact
are data-driven, you know decisions are more meaningful if they are based on data
are working as a team member
are autonomous and structured, are able and willing to write specifications/plans before implementing/executing
are striving for continuous improvement and learning
understand we work to improve the product for our users
Our stack and technologies
Our public APIs are written in Golang, use gRPC internally, and answer to REST requests.
We rely on PostgreSQL for data storage.
We sometimes use Python for scripting.
We currently have our own auth system and use Stripe as a backend for billing.
All user workloads are run inside of MicroVMs using Firecracker, a fork from KVM open-sourced by Amazon.
We use Nomad to schedule these MicroVMs on top of BareMetal servers.
We use Prometheus, Grafana Agent/Mimir/Loki for our observability stack. We also do distributed tracing with Jaeger.
We use a few cloud technologies like Kubernetes to deploy our own control plane. We use AWS, GCP, or DigitalOcean to host our control plane.
All deployments are automated using Terraform and Ansible.
Our networking stack is built using Cilium, which wraps eBPF, and Envoy.
How we work
This is a fully-remote full-time position - with the option to work from our main office in Paris, or in a co-working space near you.
We hire everywhere in France for this position and we meet once every 6 weeks in Paris for an event we - super originally - call “Everyone in Paris”. We believe being able to meet once every 6 weeks is a strong advantage to improve communication and brainstorming.
We provide standard full-time contracts with full-health coverage and standard benefits.
We’re looking for an experimented engineer and the salary is between €60k and €75k, plus equity
Some context about Koyeb:
We’re a really small team of 14 (in the whole company) and we’re composed of 90% of technical people and the resulting 10% catch the technical side.
We’re building a product used by developers and are interacting daily with our developers’ community - which are our users.
All our communications, internal and public, are in English. We are a global company, currently headquartered in France, Europe.
We’re prioritizing work that has a direct impact on user experience and expect you to think first about impact. Our long-term mission doesn’t change, but you need to be willing to work on a short-term roadmap evolving quickly depending on user feedback.
We’re an early-stage and full remote company. This is a demanding job that requires a high degree of autonomy and the ability to work asynchronously.
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