💼 Role Description

Greybeam is looking for a Founding Engineer to join our team and help build out our core technology. As a founding engineer, you will work directly with the co-founders to design and develop a platform that supports multiple data storage and processing technologies, including Snowflake, DuckDB, Trino, and ClickHouse.

This is a full-time, in-person role in SF where you will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's technology from the ground up and take ownership of key technical milestones.

⭐ You are perfect for this role if you:

You are a backend engineer with experience in data engineering and infrastructure engineering.

💻 You may be working on:

Build and refine the core logic that determines when to route queries to Snowflake, DuckDB, Trino, or ClickHouse based on cost, performance, and data freshness.
Develop a system to expose a query engine’s logical plan and serialize a plan that represents a SQL view for consistent use in multiple systems.
Create an automated benchmarking suite to compare query latency, throughput, and cost across supported engines on real-world workloads and data layouts.
Develop and maintain query engine APIs to simulate and test query engine behavior under different scenarios.
Contribute to a next-gen storage layer optimized for Iceberg tables, designed to better serve ad-hoc analytics workloads via columnar engines like DuckDB.
Build a framework to ensure data integrity across multiple query engines.
Scaling infrastructure on distributed systems.

🚀 Experiences that will help you excel

Data engineering, data warehousing, distributed systems, and infrastructure development
Cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Dremio, ClickHouse, etc.