An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
Deep experience with at least one of Go, Rust, Python or C
Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
Excellent communication skills including professional written and spoken English
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Nice-to-have skills
Depending on your eventual team, you might also bring experience with
Container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
Highly concurrent, distributed systems
Performance engineering – from kernel to web – benchmarks, optimization
Software security – fuzzing, tabletop threat models, analysis, audit
Build systems and toolchains, including for cross-compilation
Public clouds or OpenStack
Debian/Ubuntu packaging
Systems programming or scalable web services
Deep quality and test engineering
Web or Flutter front-end experience
REST and gRPC API experience
SQL and NoSQL data store expertise