Platform Engineer — Generalist

About Us

Poly is building a better file storage platform for everyone. We've raised $8M from YC, Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Figma Ventures, AI Grant, and more, and we're looking to grow our founding team of superstar builders and dreamers.

Poly’s intelligent file system is a desktop and web application that lets you store and browse your files with the help of a powerful multimodal AI. An easy way to wrap your head around it is to check out a demo from Abhay

We are adamant that Poly is the future way to store files for everyone because:

We are looking to grow from a team of three (we've accomplished a lot as just two engineers and one designer!) to a clan of around eight, so you'll be anywhere from engineer #3 to #7. You'll be tasked with bringing Poly to life as a robust platform, shaping our cloud architecture to store files at breathtaking speed and scale, and improving our AI architecture to become the "search engine for your life".

Specifically, in a platform engineer (generalist) role, we are looking for the following concrete skills and prior experience

• Core software design and architectural considerations in developing a globally distributed, highly available file storage service that lets you collaborate, version control, and much more without ever fearing data loss.
• Experience designing database schemas to be fast, efficient, flexible, and ergonomic, empowering your team to build upon your work seamlessly.
• Interest in data modeling, cache design, and local-first systems that require challenging fault tolerance and non-blocking bi‑directional schemas. Ability to reason about runtime characteristics, state management, and risk‑to‑performance trade‑offs.
• Experience or significant enthusiasm for the Rust language, which comprises our entire stack from front‑end to back. Our platform is based on a very large, robust shared library that is compiled on web, desktop, and cloud to create an unparalleled Dev Ex for building a product as complex as Poly. Poly's codebase is all welded metal, no glue.
• In this role, experience with AI modeling or training is not required, though it is still highly desirable.
• An extreme appetite for learning that you've honed through recursive self‑improvement. You should be able to demonstrate an exceptional aptitude for automating your own development processes.
• You thrive in independent, inter-disciplinary environments, and you are skilled at collaborating across domains and for productively engaging with people of all kinds.
• You are willing to leave judgments about gender, race, creed, background, belief, or politics for outside of the workplace so that we can focus on building the world's best file storage platform for everyone.
• You are capable of (and excited to) work in‑person 5‑days a week in SoMa, San Francisco

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