One person's agent should work across many machines without ever losing track of who is in charge. You make delegation and recovery predictable, which is a distributed-systems problem with an unusual constraint: the authority boundary is a single human being, and it must hold even when parts of the system are lying or gone.
Open for applications. Starts at: First team.
We are taking applications for this role now and building the pipeline for it. The stage above is when the work itself is expected to begin, which is something you deserve to know before you apply rather than after. It is context, not a gate.
Where
In the office together five days a week, in one of our garages, and remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time. We hire across the United States 🇺🇸, India 🇮🇳 and the UAE 🇦🇪.
The work
Build durable task state, queues, leases, fencing, cancellation and reconciliation. Design failover so a recovered replica cannot become a second conflicting authority. Distinguish control-plane replication from execution workers and expose uncertainty when external outcomes cannot be confirmed.
The milestone
In your first 90 days, demonstrate delegated work across two devices, interruption recovery and prevention of duplicate externally visible actions in the supported test cases.
Required
Nice to have
Evidence
Bring strong reasoning about consistency, retries, failure detection and distributed transactions. Show a system you operated through real failures and the guarantees it actually provided.
Evidence, not credentials. We are describing work you can point at, in whatever form it exists.
The exercise
Trace a task whose worker finishes after its lease expires and whose external API response is lost.
The package
Indicative pay ranges by market and level are on the compensation page. Plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.
Apply
One short form. A person reads every application and you hear back either way. You will get your own link to check where things stand, and you can withdraw or delete your application from it at any time, without an account.
