System Engineer

Technical Skills

- Mastery in System Programming (C++ or Rust or GoLang). They need to have mastered one of these languages

- Able to open up abstractions (e.g, ability to debug down into source code for C++ / Rust / GoLang to debug and understand how things work)

- Solid networking experience (WebSockets / TCP / HTTP / UDP)

- Strong command of memory management and concurrency (thread-safe data structures, atomics, understanding weak vs strong refs)

- Strong ability in data structures and modelling. Ability to model different systems and integrate them

- Strong grip on OS level sys-calls and how they map into application-level codebases

- Ability to grok and understand large codebases and not get lost in them

- Strong understanding of high-performance computing and parallelism (Queues, Multi-threading and message passing)

- Key eye for beautiful interfaces and abstractions (API Design, System Architecture Docs)

On the product end

- Ability to master different domains very quickly (e.g for Google they will have to learn the WebDriver standard)

- Very good at documenting and creating technical design docs

- Fine eye for edge cases (ability to find out what breaks things). Thinking deep into what could go wrong

Culture

- Insanely hungry

- Showcased Strong Ownership in the past (Similar to here)

- Learn on the go ability to jump quickly into large unknowns and start to tackle them bit by bit

- Learn by doing tinker and play with things until they make sense

- Strong eye for feedback loops to solve problems (iterate to get somewhere instead of trying to aim for the finish line)

- A bit of a perfectionist. Someone who deeply cares about their craft (very critical, as AI Models generate a lot of slop)