As a founding engineer, you’ll take ownership over core systems of the Synnax platform. You’ll lead the design and development of one of the following core components:

• Core: A hybrid time-series database and control system built to acquire high-rate sensor data and automate performance-critical industrial processes.
• Console: A real-time desktop application for visualization, historical review, and interactive control of complex systems.
• Device Drivers: Native integrations with data acquisition hardware including National Instruments, PLCs, LabJack, Modbus, and others.
• Client Libraries: First-class SDKs in Python, TypeScript, and C++ for engineers to extend and integrate Synnax within their workflows.

What We’re Looking For:

We come from aerospace propulsion and test engineering backgrounds (SpaceX, Firefly, Lockheed), and we’ve spent years teaching ourselves the software skills we needed to build Synnax—database internals, visualization engines, distributed consensus—without CS degrees or big tech pedigrees.

We’re looking for people wired the same way. What matters is that you’re excellent in at least one of the following areas below.

Focus Area 1: Front-End Systems

TypeScript, React, Tauri, WebSockets, WebGL, Web Workers

We build all of our visualization engines and UI components from scratch. You’d be outstanding for this role if you:

• Can write expressive functional React components.
• Have built real-time UIs using WebSockets.
• Have done low-level work with 2D Canvas or WebGL
• Understand how to push performance by offloading work to Web Workers.

Focus Area 2: Databases & Distributed Systems

Go, gRPC, UDP

We implement our own database and telemetry streaming engines in-house. You’d be outstanding for this role if you:

• Know how to write concurrent code (Go, C++, or Rust) using threads, mutexes, condition variables, channels, etc.
• Have implemented HTTP and/or GRPC based web servers.
• Have worked on parts of a database engine - WALs, B+ trees, LSMs, paging, etc.
• Are familiar with consensus algorithms like RAFT or PAXOS.
• Know how to reason about networked systems, timeouts, failure modes, and gossip protocols.

Focus Area 3: Hardware Integrations & Automation

C/C++, gRPC, UDP, Bazel

Synnax talks to industrial controllers, data acquisition devices, and embedded systems. You’d be outstanding for this role if you:

• Know your way around DAQ protocols like NI DAQmx, OPC UA, CAN, RS 422, or Modbus.
• Have written fast, concurrent C++ code that talks to hardware.
• Have programmed for real-time operating systems or tune for low-latency execution.

Our Culture:

We’re a small, scrappy team building deeply technical systems under real constraints. We work hard— 60 hours a week—and we expect everyone to take full ownership of their work, their deadlines, and often, the direction of the product itself. There’s no heavy process here. You’ll have the freedom—and the responsibility—to design, build, and ship without waiting on permission.

We believe the best work happens in person, and we prefer to work together at our Denver HQ as much as possible. It’s where ideas bounce around quickly, bugs get squashed on a whiteboard, and momentum builds. That said, we’re not dogmatic—extended remote stints are totally fine if you’re self-directed and communicative.

We’re not clock-watchers. Need to spend a morning bouldering in Eldorado Canyon or skiing before the spring melt? No problem—as long as you’re pushing the product forward and holding yourself to a high standard. You’ll be working with other engineers who taught themselves database internals, graphics engines, and distributed protocols because they were curious—and because they needed it to build the thing that didn’t exist yet.

In return for the ownership and intensity, we offer meaningful equity, the chance to solve real engineering problems, and a team of people who genuinely care about what they’re building and why.