Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems
About the job
- At least 3 years of experience as a backend engineer developing and operating microservices in a distributed environment.
- Experience with Kubernetes, gRPC, and Java.
- Experience deploying applications on one or more global cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
- Operational excellence in monitoring, deploying, and testing microservice architectures.
- Ability to make quick decisions, work independently, and balance feature development with technical debt.
- Clear communication skills.
- Build highly scalable and reliable platform services that support multi-region cloud microservices at scale.
- Collaborate with the team to implement new application programming interfaces, database and caching abstractions, and services for user-facing products, external partner integrations, and infrastructure tooling and monitoring systems.
- Own product features through design and implementation from concept to completion.
- Design for future scale and high availability, and understand common failure patterns and their remediations.
- Maintain high engineering standards for code, monitoring, operations, automated testing, and platform release management.
- Experience with Go.
- Experience with Firebase or an equivalent database.
- Experience working on a software-as-a-service product.
About the company
Onehouse provides a fully managed data lakehouse service that runs on open storage and supports table formats like Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. It continuously ingests and optimizes data with automated tasks such as clustering, compaction, masking, and encryption, plus easy change data capture for up-to-date data. Pricing is usage-based, claiming data-management cost reductions of 50% or more versus traditional cloud warehouses and ETL tools; deployment is quick with minimal engineering. The goal is to simplify and reduce costs while enabling fast access for BI, real-time analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$68M
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Onehouse claims 2024 revenue quadrupled and customer count doubled.
- Azure launch in March 2026 expands distribution inside Microsoft-heavy enterprises.
- OCR promises 30x faster queries and 80% lower cloud bills for buyers.
What critics are saying
- Databricks and Snowflake own customer workflows, squeezing Onehouse into a compatibility layer.
- Open standards erase differentiation fast if Iceberg-native engines close performance gaps by 2026.
- A failed platform unification strategy would strand Onehouse between infrastructure vendors and open-source communities.
What makes Onehouse unique
- Apache Hudi lineage gives Onehouse deep open-table-format credibility.
- Onehouse Compute Runtime spans Hudi, Iceberg, Delta, Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure.
- OneSync unifies catalogs and permissions across OneLake, Lake Formation, Unity Catalog, and Horizon.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Company Equity
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Remote Work Options
- Meal Benefits
- Parental Leave