conduit - Software Engineer, Control Plane

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems • Systems breadth: you reason across several interacting systems at once — how they fail, where the seams belong, how they stay consistent • Experience designing APIs and contracts that other teams depend on — versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation • Comfort with asynchronous and event-driven systems: idempotency, retries, partial failure, eventual consistency • Experience debugging complex issues across the stack — networking, performance, data integrity — and good instincts for where security boundaries belong • Self-directed: comfortable with ambiguity, able to take a loosely-defined problem and drive it to done • Able to become productive in an unfamiliar language quickly — our services are Go today • Built reconciliation- or controller-pattern systems (Kubernetes operators, Terraform providers, provisioning or deployment control planes) • Worked with schema- or config-as-data systems (CUE, JSON Schema, protobuf) and the realities of schema evolution and migration • Metering, usage reporting, or other systems where correctness has financial consequences • Built internal tools for expert operators • Crypto / web3 background — genuinely not required • WE THINK YOU'LL FIND THIS WORK REALLY EXCITING IF YOU: • Are drawn to questions like: how do we know what's actually running? How do we make a change safely when several systems have to agree? How do we let products evolve without the control plane needing to know? • Would rather build the abstraction that makes the next ten integrations easy than hand-wire the eleventh • Want to work somewhere that writes real design docs — arguing a position, naming the tradeoff, and disagreeing in writing before the code gets written • Are excited about building robust, large-scale, always-on services • Love building and iterating on new technologies in a fast-paced environment • A flavor of technologies in use: • Languages: Go (primary), Python • Services: gRPC / protobuf, GCP Pub/Sub, River (Postgres job queue), Watermill • Data: Postgres, Redis, GCS • Schema & config: CUE, YAML • Runtime we integrate with: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GCP • While we value experience with these technologies, we're primarily looking for engineers with strong systems judgment and the ability to quickly pick up new tools and frameworks. • CONDUIT DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, SEX, GENDER IDENTITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, NON-DISQUALIFYING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, VETERAN STATUS OR ANY OTHER BASIS COVERED BY APPROPRIATE LAW.