Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer

Converge is an AI-driven marketing platform whose agents manage advertising for consumer brands, handling campaign launches, spending decisions, performance learning, and ad creation. The company says its agents make more than 90% of ad-account budget changes and oversee over $1 million in daily spend. With 13 employees, 200-plus customers, and $3 million in annual recurring revenue, Converge is hiring its first platform engineer to build infrastructure for a rapidly growing product. Its current systems handle data associated with $6 billion in annual revenue, ingest 20 terabytes monthly, process up to 10,000 jobs per second, and run real-time queries across hundreds of gigabytes.

The engineer will set their own roadmap while personally building and operating systems, rather than focusing mainly on architecture or long-term migrations. Work may include scaling job ingestion toward a trillion jobs per month, optimizing ClickHouse performance, enabling real-time analysis across billions of attribution records, and creating a SQL dialect for agents. Converge seeks a strong coder - primarily in Python, with knowledge of faster languages - who understands Postgres, ClickHouse, and the failure modes of data-heavy systems, and who makes pragmatic, customer-focused decisions. The position is in-person in New York City and offers $180,000-$240,000 plus 0.3%-0.5% equity and benefits. Interviews include introductory and founder conversations, a technical exercise, and a paid build day; the process can be completed in two days.