Found is building tools to support the self-employed workforce, which consists of 60 million Americans facing challenges like taxes and bookkeeping.
The engineering team is responsible for taking products from ideation to usage by tens of thousands of users weekly, including building products and managing technical operations.
The role of Senior Software Engineer - Reliability involves balancing speed and safety, understanding SLOs and SLAs, and scaling systems effectively.
Recent team accomplishments include successfully scaling request volume by 100% month over month for two years, designing model serving infrastructure in Google Cloud, and maintaining infrastructure for hundreds of deployments monthly.
Daily responsibilities include designing developer tooling for safer deployments, architecting future system versions for scalability, partnering with operations and engineering for compliance, improving system introspection, owning shared services, and mentoring engineering on reliable system design.
Requirements:
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience with backend technologies.
Experience writing production code in Ruby, Go, or Python is required.
Candidates should have experience working in a public cloud environment.
A proven track record of scaling and troubleshooting production systems or services is necessary.
Strong knowledge of SLAs and SLOs, and how to implement them in a fast-paced environment is essential.
A deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, including coredns/kubedns and autoscaling, is required.
Benefits:
Found offers a competitive salary range of $186,000 - $241,000, with individual pay determined by skills, experience, and education.
Employees have access to 401K, FSA, and commuter benefits, providing tax-efficient options alongside competitive compensation.
New parents qualify for 16 weeks of flexible paid parental leave.
Comprehensive health benefits are provided, covering 100% for employees and 90% for dependents.
Employees can work remotely or from Found offices in SF and NYC.
Found offers meaningful equity to all employees, promoting a sense of ownership.
A flexible vacation policy allows employees to take time off as needed for vacations, appointments, or mental health days.
