Convex is transforming the way developers build applications.
Our mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
The Convex team has a lot of experience running large systems at scale, but as our customers and infrastructure grow we’re looking to hire exceptional senior or staff-level engineers to help us build and maintain the future of Convex at scale. If you are passionate about distributed systems and have a strong background in designing and operating web infrastructure at scale, we would love to talk to you!
We believe in the value of good architecture, leveraged work, and simplicity. Our team is high-ownership and cares a lot about oncall but this isn’t just an ops role - we want people who design and build things the right way… or as close as is possible at a startup.
What You’ll Do:
Design, build, and maintain Convex’s global cloud infrastructure.
Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.
Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO (hi! this is me, James).
Help establish good practices and reliability guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.
Write a bunch of cool systems and database code.
Occasionally put up with James asking if there’s a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.
What Excites Us:
4+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating infrastructure with a deep knowledge of systems at scale.
Good understanding of best practices for systems design, operational practices, and managing services.
Experience scaling in a high growth startup environment.
Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.
Ability to write high quality code (knowledge of Rust is a plus).
An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
If someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.
Convex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.
We generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.
Working at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.
*The salary range for this full-time position is >$200,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"Convex is transforming the way developers build applications. \n\nOur mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime.\n\n \n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nThe Convex team has a lot of experience running large systems at scale, but as our customers and infrastructure grow we’re looking to hire exceptional senior or staff-level engineers to help us build and maintain the future of Convex at scale. If you are passionate about distributed systems and have a strong background in designing and operating web infrastructure at scale, we would love to talk to you!\n\nWe believe in the value of good architecture, leveraged work, and simplicity. Our team is high-ownership and cares a lot about oncall but this isn’t just an ops role - we want people who design and build things the right way… or as close as is possible at a startup.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\n - Design, build, and maintain Convex’s global cloud infrastructure.\n\n - Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.\n\n - Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO (hi! this is me, James).\n\n - Help establish good practices and reliability guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.\n\n - Write a bunch of cool systems and database code.\n\n - Occasionally put up with James asking if there’s a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - 4+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating infrastructure with a deep knowledge of systems at scale.\n\n - Good understanding of best practices for systems design, operational practices, and managing services.\n\n - Experience scaling in a high growth startup environment.\n\n - Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n - Ability to write high quality code (knowledge of Rust is a plus).\n\n - An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nHAVE THEY SEEN EXCELLENCE?\n\nIf someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY A DEEP THINKER?\n\nConvex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY UNDERSTAND THE DEMANDS OF A USER-FACING LIVE-SITE SERVICE?\n\nWe generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE TENACITY?\n\nWorking at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.\n\n\n\n*The salary range for this full-time position is >$200,000 + equity + benefits"},{"id":"54fed7d5-33c5-429c-8100-e2ba345dce52","title":"Software Engineer, API Platform","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-08-06T00:14:22.550+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/54fed7d5-33c5-429c-8100-e2ba345dce52","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/54fed7d5-33c5-429c-8100-e2ba345dce52/application","descriptionHtml":"Convex is transforming the way developers build applications.
Our mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
Convex is a backend platform but our key differentiator is an excellent client API and developer experience. We’ve invested huge efforts in our client libraries, development APIs and sync protocol to make Convex a joy to use for application developers. We’re looking to expand our team to develop the next version of the Convex API and help define what the modern application stack looks like.
If you’re an experienced TypeScript developer, care deeply about elegance and taste in API design, and believe that good platforms matter even more, not less, in an era of AI app development, then this is the job for you.
What You’ll Do:
Design, build, and maintain Convex’s client libraries, sync protocol, and query APIs.
Support new frameworks and keep track of new technologies in the app development space.
Develop an understanding of what abstractions scale and compose well in our stack so we can build libraries that are not just easy to use but also simple over the lifetime of a project.
Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO (hi! this is me, James).
Help establish good practices and design guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.
Write a bunch of cool client library code.
What Excites Us:
3+ years experience building APIs, client libraries or developer tools.
Good understanding of best practices in the TypeScript, React, and web dev ecosystems.
Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.
Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.
Ability to write high quality code (strong TypeScript experience a plus).
An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
If someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.
Convex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.
We generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.
Working at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.
*The salary range for this full-time position is >$180,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"Convex is transforming the way developers build applications. \n\nOur mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime.\n\n \n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nConvex is a backend platform but our key differentiator is an excellent client API and developer experience. We’ve invested huge efforts in our client libraries, development APIs and sync protocol to make Convex a joy to use for application developers. We’re looking to expand our team to develop the next version of the Convex API and help define what the modern application stack looks like.\n\nIf you’re an experienced TypeScript developer, care deeply about elegance and taste in API design, and believe that good platforms matter even more, not less, in an era of AI app development, then this is the job for you.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\n - Design, build, and maintain Convex’s client libraries, sync protocol, and query APIs.\n\n - Support new frameworks and keep track of new technologies in the app development space.\n\n - Develop an understanding of what abstractions scale and compose well in our stack so we can build libraries that are not just easy to use but also simple over the lifetime of a project.\n\n - Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO (hi! this is me, James).\n\n - Help establish good practices and design guidelines as we scale up our team and systems.\n\n - Write a bunch of cool client library code.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - 3+ years experience building APIs, client libraries or developer tools.\n\n - Good understanding of best practices in the TypeScript, React, and web dev ecosystems.\n\n - Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.\n\n - Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n - Ability to write high quality code (strong TypeScript experience a plus).\n\n - An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nHAVE THEY SEEN EXCELLENCE?\n\nIf someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY A DEEP THINKER?\n\nConvex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY UNDERSTAND THE DEMANDS OF A USER-FACING LIVE-SITE SERVICE?\n\nWe generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE TENACITY?\n\nWorking at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.\n\n\n\n*The salary range for this full-time position is >$180,000 + equity + benefits"},{"id":"98c4fcd7-c1ac-4588-a720-3ea6a0553784","title":"Software Engineer, Full Stack","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-10-01T23:56:36.900+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/98c4fcd7-c1ac-4588-a720-3ea6a0553784","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/98c4fcd7-c1ac-4588-a720-3ea6a0553784/application","descriptionHtml":"A platform can be powerful and still fail if people don't enjoy using it. The surfaces developers interact with directly often dictate whether they stick around, no matter what happens underneath the hood. Building a product experience that's powerful, reliable, and genuinely enjoyable to use is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
Convex’s product surface area is vast and includes our dashboard, insights, third-party integrations, project management, and more. These surfaces are core to our customers' businesses and need to be both powerful and delightful to use. We're looking for engineers who are deeply passionate about building good product experiences, especially as we grow more up-market.
This isn't a role for people who just want to solve puzzles. You'll apply product sensibilities to deciding \"why\" and \"what\" we build, not just \"how\". If you're an engineer with good design taste who cares about quality and enjoys working directly with customers to understand what they actually need, you'll likely be a great fit for this team.
What You’ll Do:
Design, build and maintain Convex's platforms, dashboard UI, integrations, and other services.
Work directly with customers and company leadership (hi! this is me, James) to shape plans for what features we need to build.
Projects you may work on in your first few months at Convex:
Design and build UIs for Convex Backend Components
Enhancing Convex's dashboard, CLI, and MCP to be world-class for AI agents
Upgrading Convex's role-based access control system to allow access tokens and integrations to have finer-grained permissions
What Excites Us:
3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong UX sensibilities and enthusiasm to build intuitive interfaces.
The ability to conceptualize the needs of someone else. Often our customers have much larger teams than ours with different business requirements we need to understand.
Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.
Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.
An ability to write high quality code and an enthusiasm for not being constrained to a certain layer of the stack
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
Have they seen excellence?
If someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.
Are they a deep thinker?
Convex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.
Are they obsessed with craft?
Craft is the difference between something that technically works and something people actually love to use, and it's most of what separates a good developer platform from a great one. We want an engineer who sweats the details most people would let slide, holds a high bar for how things feel to build with, and takes real pride in getting that last 10% right.
Do they value simplicity and pragmatism?
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.
Do they bring energy to the room?
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.
Do they have tenacity?
Working at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.
*The salary range for this full-time position is >$180,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"A platform can be powerful and still fail if people don't enjoy using it. The surfaces developers interact with directly often dictate whether they stick around, no matter what happens underneath the hood. Building a product experience that's powerful, reliable, and genuinely enjoyable to use is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.\n\n \n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nConvex’s product surface area is vast and includes our dashboard, insights, third-party integrations, project management, and more. These surfaces are core to our customers' businesses and need to be both powerful and delightful to use. We're looking for engineers who are deeply passionate about building good product experiences, especially as we grow more up-market.\n\nThis isn't a role for people who just want to solve puzzles. You'll apply product sensibilities to deciding \"why\" and \"what\" we build, not just \"how\". If you're an engineer with good design taste who cares about quality and enjoys working directly with customers to understand what they actually need, you'll likely be a great fit for this team.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\n - Design, build and maintain Convex's platforms, dashboard UI, integrations, and other services.\n\n - Work directly with customers and company leadership (hi! this is me, James) to shape plans for what features we need to build.\n\n - Projects you may work on in your first few months at Convex:\n \n - Design and build UIs for Convex Backend Components https://www.convex.dev/components\n \n - Enhancing Convex's dashboard, CLI, and MCP to be world-class for AI agents\n \n - Upgrading Convex's role-based access control system to allow access tokens and integrations to have finer-grained permissions \n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.\n\n - Strong UX sensibilities and enthusiasm to build intuitive interfaces.\n\n - The ability to conceptualize the needs of someone else. Often our customers have much larger teams than ours with different business requirements we need to understand.\n\n - Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.\n\n - Interest to work in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n - An ability to write high quality code and an enthusiasm for not being constrained to a certain layer of the stack\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates that would make great engineers at Convex. We’re have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\nHave they seen excellence?\n\nIf someone has a few years of experience it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that’s truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can’t just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn’t need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.\n\n\n\nAre they a deep thinker?\n\nConvex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.\n\n\n\nAre they obsessed with craft? \n\nCraft is the difference between something that technically works and something people actually love to use, and it's most of what separates a good developer platform from a great one. We want an engineer who sweats the details most people would let slide, holds a high bar for how things feel to build with, and takes real pride in getting that last 10% right.\n\n\n\nDo they value simplicity and pragmatism?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.\n\n\n\nDo they bring energy to the room?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\nDo they have tenacity?\n\nWorking at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. 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Our mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet by empowering developers to create fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without a backend team. We provide a full-stack app platform carefully designed with database, compute and backend abstractions that allow developers and LLMs to move fast but also create products that scale and remain simple over their lifetime.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
The Convex team has a lot of experience running large systems at scale, and as our customers and infrastructure grow, we’re looking for exceptional staff or principal-level engineers to help build and maintain what comes next. If you’re passionate about distributed systems and have experience designing and operating large-scale infra, we’d love to talk!
This is a hands-on role that moves between architecture and execution. You’ll work across core systems like our database and synchronization layer, and build out newer primitives like branching and analytics as they take shape. A lot of Convex’s platform requires serious design work where we can’t just follow best-practices since we’re the ones defining them. If you like the idea of designing a new storage layer that minimizes B-tree churn, or coming up with an API for managing ephemeral state that might disappear if a node restarts, or setting all that aside for a week and landing something simple and pragmatic because we’re a startup and need to ship, you’re going to like it here.
We value simplicity, leveraged work, and strong ownership. Our team is high-ownership and cares a lot about oncall but this isn’t an ops role - we want people who design and build things the right way… or as close as is possible at a startup.
You’ll work closely with the engineering team and CTO on some of the most important technical decisions at the company.
What You’ll Do:
Design, build, and maintain Convex’s global cloud infrastructure.
Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.
Be self-directed in prioritizing the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with the engineering team and CTO (hi! this is me, James).
Own architectural decisions that shape the long-term behavior of multiple core systems.
Help establish technical direction and engineering standards as Convex grows.
Work across the stack when needed, rather than being constrained to a single layer of infrastructure.
Write a bunch of cool systems and database code.
Occasionally put up with James asking if there’s a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.
What Excites Us:
6+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering, though we care far more about depth of ownership and experience operating mission-critical systems than years alone.
Experience building and scaling large systems, including owning systems through major scale transitions or building core infrastructure from scratch.
Strong systems judgment: understanding tradeoffs and knowing when to keep systems simple versus when to invest in complexity.
Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
Ability to write high quality code (knowledge of Rust is a plus, but you’ll figure it out).
An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
If someone has a few years of experience, it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team, or organization that is truly excellent in any domain. Excellence can’t be learned passively since it requires being meaningfully better than the status quo. What we care about most, though, is whether they have developed a sense for what high-quality engineering looks like. This shows up in how they reason about systems, the standards they hold for their own work, and the kinds of tradeoffs they find acceptable. They should recognize that excellence is rare and that developing real engineering judgment requires years of deliberate work.
Convex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.
We generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.
Working at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There’s a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $240,000 + equity + benefits
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We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nThe Convex team has a lot of experience running large systems at scale, and as our customers and infrastructure grow, we’re looking for exceptional staff or principal-level engineers to help build and maintain what comes next. If you’re passionate about distributed systems and have experience designing and operating large-scale infra, we’d love to talk!\n\nThis is a hands-on role that moves between architecture and execution. You’ll work across core systems like our database and synchronization layer, and build out newer primitives like branching and analytics as they take shape. A lot of Convex’s platform requires serious design work where we can’t just follow best-practices since we’re the ones defining them. If you like the idea of designing a new storage layer that minimizes B-tree churn, or coming up with an API for managing ephemeral state that might disappear if a node restarts, or setting all that aside for a week and landing something simple and pragmatic because we’re a startup and need to ship, you’re going to like it here.\n\nWe value simplicity, leveraged work, and strong ownership. 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We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nHAVE THEY DEVELOPED TASTE FOR EXCELLENCE?\n\nIf someone has a few years of experience, it’s extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team, or organization that is truly excellent in any domain. Excellence can’t be learned passively since it requires being meaningfully better than the status quo. What we care about most, though, is whether they have developed a sense for what high-quality engineering looks like. This shows up in how they reason about systems, the standards they hold for their own work, and the kinds of tradeoffs they find acceptable. They should recognize that excellence is rare and that developing real engineering judgment requires years of deliberate work.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY A DEEP THINKER?\n\nConvex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there’s a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they’re solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it’s a “best practice” they will probably not excel here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY UNDERSTAND THE DEMANDS OF A USER-FACING LIVE-SITE SERVICE?\n\nWe generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it’s more relevant domain experience but it also involves a mindset that the system absolutely must work because there’s a critical user-facing application on the other side. Live-site experience brings an appreciation of how hard it is to keep a service running at all times and how important it is to build simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don’t come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We’re meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE TENACITY?\n\nWorking at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn’t crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. 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Architecting this platform is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We have a lot of work to do. The projects involve range from small ergonomic tweaks to make agentic development seamless, large structural changes like branching and automatic performance optimization of Convex projects, and keeping on top of and ahead of technological shifts in the industry.
The ideal candidate is an excellent engineer with the taste to develop composable APIs and abstractions, and the judgment to know when that's not the right call. This is a role with real latitude. You'll be looking at a broad product surface area, deciding what matters most, and building it without much hand-holding. If you're a former founder or an engineer who's comfortable moving between product and infrastructure, and you want to operate with a lot of autonomy on a small, high-leverage team, this is for you.
What You'll Do:
Work across our APIs, plugins, and AI framework integrations to make Convex the best platform for building agentic apps and agents.
Stay close to how developers are actually building with Convex, identify gaps, and own fixing them.
Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with our Head of AI Ergonomics, the engineering team, and CTO (hi! this is me, James).
Strengthen the case that Convex is the best platform for agentic development, through demos, examples, and working directly with customers.
Write a bunch of cool code at the frontier of how AI apps get built.
What Excites Us:
4+ years of experience shipping and owning developer-facing products, APIs, or tooling, with a track record of operating independently.
Strong instincts for what makes a developer tool feel right to use.
Genuine curiosity about how AI is changing the way software gets built.
Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF, or have experience working remotely and be highly self-directed.
Ability to write high quality code (TypeScript experience a plus).
An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
If someone has a few years of experience it's extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that's truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can't just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn't need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.
Convex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there's a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they're solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it's a \"best practice\" they will probably not excel here.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don't come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
Working at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn't crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. There's a camaraderie that comes from being in a team where everyone has tenacity, will step in to help each other out, and can be trusted to do the right thing.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $200,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"It’s not sufficient for Convex to be the best platform for agentic development, it also has to be the best platform for building agentic applications too, all while maintaining strong architectural principles that lead to applications that stay simple, correct, and secure over time. Architecting this platform is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.\n\n \n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nWe have a lot of work to do. 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If you're a former founder or an engineer who's comfortable moving between product and infrastructure, and you want to operate with a lot of autonomy on a small, high-leverage team, this is for you.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Work across our APIs, plugins, and AI framework integrations to make Convex the best platform for building agentic apps and agents.\n\n - Stay close to how developers are actually building with Convex, identify gaps, and own fixing them.\n\n - Be self-directed to prioritize the right projects to work on, in close collaboration with our Head of AI Ergonomics, the engineering team, and CTO (hi! this is me, James).\n\n - Strengthen the case that Convex is the best platform for agentic development, through demos, examples, and working directly with customers.\n\n - Write a bunch of cool code at the frontier of how AI apps get built.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - 4+ years of experience shipping and owning developer-facing products, APIs, or tooling, with a track record of operating independently.\n\n - Strong instincts for what makes a developer tool feel right to use.\n\n - Genuine curiosity about how AI is changing the way software gets built.\n\n - Experience or enthusiasm for scaling in a high growth startup environment.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF, or have experience working remotely and be highly self-directed.\n\n - Ability to write high quality code (TypeScript experience a plus).\n\n - An enthusiasm for going deep to understand Convex systems and not be constrained to a certain layer of the stack.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nHAVE THEY SEEN EXCELLENCE?\n\nIf someone has a few years of experience it's extremely valuable for them to have worked closely with a person, team or organization that's truly excellent, in any domain. Excellence can't just be learned passively since it requires being better than the status quo. The candidate doesn't need to be excellent yet but they need to have an appreciation that it requires a lifetime of dedication.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY A DEEP THINKER?\n\nConvex is a rejection of industry norms and a belief there's a better way of building apps. This requires us to think for ourselves and chart our own course. Engineers here need to think deeply about why they're solving problems and the long-term implications of their choices. If someone does something just because they were told to or because it's a \"best practice\" they will probably not excel here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, especially those that are able to scale and adapt to future needs. In addition to architectural simplicity, we also try to do the simplest thing to solve a given problem at Convex. Don't come here because you want to write a consensus protocol or storage engine, even though sometimes we need to do these things. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE TENACITY?\n\nWorking at Convex is rewarding and the workload isn't crazy but our users come first and sometimes that means we need to be on-call. We sometimes (rarely), get paged at night and have to respond with dedication, sometimes need to dig deep to debug a tricky issue or solve a problem no one has solved before. 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As app development becomes commoditized and the nature of applications changes, coding agents need a backend platform that codifies good systems design principles and is accountable for simplicity, correctness, scale and performance so that teams are able to build the applications of tomorrow. This is a very difficult product challenge: Convex needs to be incredibly easy to use both for agents and humans, but has to impose the right constraints that ensure that applications actually work and scale over the lifetime of a company. We’re looking for a product lead to help us shape the agentic/developer experience for the next chapter of Convex.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco.
The Role:
Our team is exceptional at solving hard technical problems. We're looking for our second product manager to make sure we solve the right ones. You'll own full product areas end to end, working alongside our CTO and engineers who have built some of the largest platforms in the world.
This isn't a role where you just manage a backlog. Some days you'll be on calls with customers to understand why their team is spinning up hundreds of deployments. Other days you'll dig through usage data, write a crisp spec for a new platform API, or help our Heads of GTM and Marketing explain a new capability to developers.
What You'll Do:
Own one or more product areas of the Convex platform (e.g., our AI gateway, platform APIs, the component ecosystem). Alongside the founders, you’ll set their roadmap with the founders.
Talk to customers every week. Turn what you learn into clear problem statements, specs and prioritization calls.
Define and instrument the metrics for your areas, and use data to decide what's working.
Work closely with engineers from design through launch.
Partner with the GTM team on launches and messaging for your areas and our support team to define the product roadmap.
Bring your own read on what developers and agents need. Push back when you think we're wrong.
What Excites Us:
Minimum 2–4 years as a PM at a technical or developer-facing company, or 2–4 years as a software engineer who wants to move into product.
A CS degree, or equivalent hands-on engineering experience. You should be comfortable reading code, using a CLI, and having real technical tradeoff discussions.
You've shipped something you're proud of and can explain why it was the right thing to build.
You are comfortable doing user interviews, writing product specs, and performing data analysis.
Clear, simple writing.
Bonus: Hands-on experience with TypeScript and/or modern web development technologies.
Interest in working in person at our SF office.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
Developer tools are different. Your users are technical, skeptical, and are quick to spot inauthenticity. Positioning that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, who understands why \"it just works\" is both harder to achieve and more important than it sounds.
The best PMs we've encountered have a strong point of view on what good looks like and a track record of pushing for it. Not just identifying problems but caring enough to fight for the right solution. We want someone who has shipped things they're genuinely proud of and holds a high bar for what that means.
A lot of this job is turning a vague problem into something real. We want someone who doesn't need a clean brief to get moving. They can sit with ambiguity, make a call, and carry it through design, build, and launch. The best PMs here measure themselves by what shipped, not by how good the plan looked.
The best product thinking is simple. Simple positioning, simple prioritization, simple explanations of hard problems. We have a bias toward doing fewer things better and want a PM who has that bias too. Someone who can make a complicated product decision feel obvious in retrospect.
Founders have to move fast, often hold strong opinions, and need to think ahead of the market. Working well in that environment means knowing when to push back, being direct without being difficult, and building trust through good judgment rather than process. This person will spend a lot of time with our founding team and needs to thrive in that dynamic. Although to be honest we’re a pretty friendly founder team.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
*The salary range for this full-time position is >$170,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"Convex is the difference between coding and engineering. As app development becomes commoditized and the nature of applications changes, coding agents need a backend platform that codifies good systems design principles and is accountable for simplicity, correctness, scale and performance so that teams are able to build the applications of tomorrow. This is a very difficult product challenge: Convex needs to be incredibly easy to use both for agents and humans, but has to impose the right constraints that ensure that applications actually work and scale over the lifetime of a company. We’re looking for a product lead to help us shape the agentic/developer experience for the next chapter of Convex.\n\n \n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. \n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nOur team is exceptional at solving hard technical problems. We're looking for our second product manager to make sure we solve the right ones. You'll own full product areas end to end, working alongside our CTO and engineers who have built some of the largest platforms in the world.\n\nThis isn't a role where you just manage a backlog. Some days you'll be on calls with customers to understand why their team is spinning up hundreds of deployments. Other days you'll dig through usage data, write a crisp spec for a new platform API, or help our Heads of GTM and Marketing explain a new capability to developers.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Own one or more product areas of the Convex platform (e.g., our AI gateway, platform APIs, the component ecosystem). Alongside the founders, you’ll set their roadmap with the founders.\n\n - Talk to customers every week. Turn what you learn into clear problem statements, specs and prioritization calls.\n\n - Define and instrument the metrics for your areas, and use data to decide what's working.\n\n - Work closely with engineers from design through launch.\n\n - Partner with the GTM team on launches and messaging for your areas and our support team to define the product roadmap.\n\n - Bring your own read on what developers and agents need. Push back when you think we're wrong.\n \n \n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - Minimum 2–4 years as a PM at a technical or developer-facing company, or 2–4 years as a software engineer who wants to move into product.\n\n - A CS degree, or equivalent hands-on engineering experience. You should be comfortable reading code, using a CLI, and having real technical tradeoff discussions.\n\n - You've shipped something you're proud of and can explain why it was the right thing to build.\n\n - You are comfortable doing user interviews, writing product specs, and performing data analysis.\n\n - Clear, simple writing.\n\n - Bonus: Hands-on experience with TypeScript and/or modern web development technologies.\n\n - Interest in working in person at our SF office.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n \n\n\nDO THEY UNDERSTAND DEVELOPER PRODUCTS?\n\nDeveloper tools are different. Your users are technical, skeptical, and are quick to spot inauthenticity. Positioning that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, who understands why \"it just works\" is both harder to achieve and more important than it sounds.\n\n\n\n\nHAVE THEY DEVELOPED TASTE FOR GREAT PRODUCTS?\n\nThe best PMs we've encountered have a strong point of view on what good looks like and a track record of pushing for it. Not just identifying problems but caring enough to fight for the right solution. We want someone who has shipped things they're genuinely proud of and holds a high bar for what that means.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY TURN AMBIGUITY INTO ACTION?\n\nA lot of this job is turning a vague problem into something real. We want someone who doesn't need a clean brief to get moving. They can sit with ambiguity, make a call, and carry it through design, build, and launch. The best PMs here measure themselves by what shipped, not by how good the plan looked.\n\n \n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND CLARITY?\n\nThe best product thinking is simple. Simple positioning, simple prioritization, simple explanations of hard problems. We have a bias toward doing fewer things better and want a PM who has that bias too. Someone who can make a complicated product decision feel obvious in retrospect.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH FOUNDERS?\n\nFounders have to move fast, often hold strong opinions, and need to think ahead of the market. Working well in that environment means knowing when to push back, being direct without being difficult, and building trust through good judgment rather than process. This person will spend a lot of time with our founding team and needs to thrive in that dynamic. Although to be honest we’re a pretty friendly founder team.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n*The salary range for this full-time position is >$170,000 + equity + benefits"},{"id":"d82f63c9-490f-43d1-b30a-91fece4d39da","title":"Engineering Manager, Infra/Systems","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-21T21:25:19.596+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/d82f63c9-490f-43d1-b30a-91fece4d39da","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/d82f63c9-490f-43d1-b30a-91fece4d39da/application","descriptionHtml":"Application demands are rapidly changing while the experience to design and operate infrastructure is rapidly diminishing. A new platform abstraction is needed to support agentic development, agentic applications, and an entirely new set of application workloads. We think Convex is the team and platform best placed to define this abstraction.
Building infrastructure that’s fast, reliable, and designed to make good architecture easy and bad architecture hard is a difficult challenge. Building and leading the team that architects this platform is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our infra team, someone who is still very much an engineer. The team owns the database, the sync layer, and the newer primitives like branching and analytics that we're building out as they take shape, and a lot of this work has no playbook because we're the ones writing it. If you have a deep background in distributed systems and care about making the people around you better, we'd love to talk.
This isn't a role for someone who wants to step back from the technical work. You'll be working alongside the team on hard systems problems, contributing to architecture and code review, and working closely with our CTO on some of the most important technical decisions at the company. The leadership side is equally important: helping engineers think deeply about why they're building what they're building and giving them real ownership of hard problems. If you like the idea of guiding an engineer through designing a new storage layer, or helping the team set aside an interesting problem for a week to land something simple and pragmatic because we're a startup and need to ship, you're going to like it here.
What You'll Do:
Manage and grow the Infra team, giving engineers real ownership of hard problems and holding them to a high bar.
Work closely with our CTO to align the team on priorities and make sure we're working on the right things at the right time.
Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.
Design, build, and maintain Convex's global cloud infrastructure alongside the team.
Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.
Help establish technical direction and engineering standards as Convex grows.
Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.
Occasionally put up with James asking if there's a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.
What Excites Us:
Deep knowledge of distributed systems and operating infrastructure at scale, including owning systems through major scale transitions or building core infrastructure from scratch.
A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.
Strong systems judgment: understanding tradeoffs and knowing when to keep systems simple versus when to invest in complexity.
Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
Ability to write high quality code (knowledge of Rust is a plus, but you'll figure it out).
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineering managers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
The best engineering managers we've worked with never really stopped being engineers. They have opinions about technical decisions, they can actually evaluate the work their team is doing, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get deep in the weeds with the team, you're going to have a hard time leading engineers who live there.
The job here isn't to be the best engineer on the team or to review every line of code. It's to give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, and help them get better over time. Sometimes that means stepping in, sometimes it means getting out of the way, and sometimes it means having a hard conversation nobody wants to have. A good manager knows the difference and takes responsibility for the team's outcomes either way.
At Convex, \"my manager told me to\" is not a satisfactory answer to why we're building something, even if the manager is the CTO. Engineers here don't just do things because they're told, they do them because they believe in them. A great EM spends the time to make sure the team understands the why, and when there's a disagreement, digs into the root of it rather than pulling rank.
We generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it's more relevant but because it comes with a mindset: the system absolutely must work because there's a real user-facing application on the other side. A good infra manager has felt that weight themselves and knows how to build a team that takes it seriously, keeps a high bar for reliability, and builds simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail in the first place.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and it turns out it's at the heart of good engineering leadership too. We want someone with a bias toward doing fewer things better, who pushes back on unnecessary complexity, and who knows when to tell the team to stop gold-plating something and just ship it because we're a startup and need to move.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
Integrity underlies everything we do at Convex, and for a manager it matters even more. The team needs to trust that you'll be honest with them, go to bat for them, and do the right thing when no one is watching. Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy. We want someone who treats it as a way of life, not something you switch on when people are looking.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $280,000 + equity + benefits
","descriptionPlain":"Application demands are rapidly changing while the experience to design and operate infrastructure is rapidly diminishing. A new platform abstraction is needed to support agentic development, agentic applications, and an entirely new set of application workloads. We think Convex is the team and platform best placed to define this abstraction.\n\nBuilding infrastructure that’s fast, reliable, and designed to make good architecture easy and bad architecture hard is a difficult challenge. Building and leading the team that architects this platform is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.\n\n\n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our infra team, someone who is still very much an engineer. The team owns the database, the sync layer, and the newer primitives like branching and analytics that we're building out as they take shape, and a lot of this work has no playbook because we're the ones writing it. If you have a deep background in distributed systems and care about making the people around you better, we'd love to talk.\n\nThis isn't a role for someone who wants to step back from the technical work. You'll be working alongside the team on hard systems problems, contributing to architecture and code review, and working closely with our CTO on some of the most important technical decisions at the company. The leadership side is equally important: helping engineers think deeply about why they're building what they're building and giving them real ownership of hard problems. If you like the idea of guiding an engineer through designing a new storage layer, or helping the team set aside an interesting problem for a week to land something simple and pragmatic because we're a startup and need to ship, you're going to like it here.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Manage and grow the Infra team, giving engineers real ownership of hard problems and holding them to a high bar.\n\n - Work closely with our CTO to align the team on priorities and make sure we're working on the right things at the right time.\n\n - Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.\n\n - Design, build, and maintain Convex's global cloud infrastructure alongside the team.\n\n - Investigate and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.\n\n - Help establish technical direction and engineering standards as Convex grows.\n\n - Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.\n\n - Occasionally put up with James asking if there's a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - Deep knowledge of distributed systems and operating infrastructure at scale, including owning systems through major scale transitions or building core infrastructure from scratch.\n\n - A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.\n\n - Strong systems judgment: understanding tradeoffs and knowing when to keep systems simple versus when to invest in complexity.\n\n - Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n - Ability to write high quality code (knowledge of Rust is a plus, but you'll figure it out).\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineering managers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY DEEPLY TECHNICAL?\n\nThe best engineering managers we've worked with never really stopped being engineers. They have opinions about technical decisions, they can actually evaluate the work their team is doing, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get deep in the weeds with the team, you're going to have a hard time leading engineers who live there.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY DEVELOP PEOPLE, NOT JUST SHIP SOFTWARE?\n\nThe job here isn't to be the best engineer on the team or to review every line of code. It's to give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, and help them get better over time. Sometimes that means stepping in, sometimes it means getting out of the way, and sometimes it means having a hard conversation nobody wants to have. A good manager knows the difference and takes responsibility for the team's outcomes either way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY DO IT FOR THE WHY?\n\nAt Convex, \"my manager told me to\" is not a satisfactory answer to why we're building something, even if the manager is the CTO. Engineers here don't just do things because they're told, they do them because they believe in them. A great EM spends the time to make sure the team understands the why, and when there's a disagreement, digs into the root of it rather than pulling rank.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY UNDERSTAND THE DEMANDS OF A USER-FACING LIVE-SITE SERVICE?\n\nWe generally weigh experience on OLTP databases over OLAP or offline systems. Not just because it's more relevant but because it comes with a mindset: the system absolutely must work because there's a real user-facing application on the other side. A good infra manager has felt that weight themselves and knows how to build a team that takes it seriously, keeps a high bar for reliability, and builds simple well-abstracted systems that are less likely to fail in the first place.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and it turns out it's at the heart of good engineering leadership too. We want someone with a bias toward doing fewer things better, who pushes back on unnecessary complexity, and who knows when to tell the team to stop gold-plating something and just ship it because we're a startup and need to move.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY WORTHY OF TRUST?\n\nIntegrity underlies everything we do at Convex, and for a manager it matters even more. The team needs to trust that you'll be honest with them, go to bat for them, and do the right thing when no one is watching. Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy. 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A new platform abstraction is needed to support agentic development, agentic applications, and an entirely new set of application workloads. We think Convex is the team and platform best placed to define this abstraction.
Designing the platform, APIs, and frameworks for the future of application development is a difficult challenge. It requires a strong understanding of developer needs as well as the constraints that lead to applications that stay simple, correct, and secure over time. Building and leading the teams that make this possible is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the teams that shape the Convex developer (and agent) experience. It's an ambitious and fast-moving mandate that spans a large surface area, from our development APIs, to agent frameworks, to integrations, to the component system that makes Convex effortless to build with. The unifying goal is simple to say and hard to do: be the best platform for developers, for building agents, and for agentic development.
This isn't a role where you hand off the technical work and manage from above. You'll help engineers understand why they're building what they're building, give them real ownership, and develop their judgment on how good something needs to be before it ships, all while staying in the architecture discussions and decisions about what to build and why. If you want to build a team that holds itself to a standard where 'it technically works' is never the finish line, you're going to like it here.
What You’ll Do:
Manage and grow the teams spanning our product experience, giving engineers real ownership and holding them to a high bar.
Develop a strong understanding of what developers and agents need from Convex and use it to make tradeoffs between competing priorities.
Work closely with our CTO and product lead to align the teams on priorities and make sure we're building the right things at the right time.
Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.
Design, build, and maintain the developer-facing surfaces of Convex alongside the teams.
Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.
Occasionally put up with James asking if there's a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.
What Excites Us:
Deep experience building and shipping high-quality developer-facing products or tools, ideally at a technical or developer tools company.
A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.
Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and agents need from a platform like Convex.
Strong product sensibility and taste. You care about closing the gap between something that works and something that's a genuine pleasure to use.
Comfort with prioritization and tradeoffs across a broad surface area, and the judgment to know what matters for customers and what matters for the business.
Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineering managers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
The best engineering managers we've worked with never really stopped being engineers. They have opinions about technical decisions, they can actually evaluate the work their team is doing, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get deep in the weeds with the team, you're going to have a hard time leading engineers who live there.
The job here isn't to be the best engineer on the team or to review every line of code. It's to give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, and help them get better over time. Sometimes that means stepping in, sometimes it means getting out of the way, and sometimes it means having a hard conversation nobody wants to have. A good manager knows the difference and takes responsibility for the team's outcomes either way.
At Convex, \"my manager told me to\" is not a satisfactory answer to why we're building something, even if the manager is the CTO. Engineers here don't just do things because they're told, they do them because they believe in them. A great EM spends the time to make sure the team understands the why, and when there's a disagreement, digs into the root of it rather than pulling rank.
Craft is the difference between something that technically works and something people actually love to use, and it's most of what separates a good developer platform from a great one. We want a manager who sweats the details most people would let slide, holds a high bar for how things feel to build with, and can pull that same standard out of the engineers around them.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and it turns out it's at the heart of good engineering leadership too. We want someone with a bias toward doing fewer things better, who pushes back on unnecessary complexity, and who knows when to tell the team to stop gold-plating something and just ship it because we're a startup and need to move.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
Integrity underlies everything we do at Convex, and for a manager it matters even more. The team needs to trust that you'll be honest with them, go to bat for them, and do the right thing when no one is watching. Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy. We want someone who treats it as a way of life, not something you switch on when people are looking.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $280,000 + equity + benefits
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Building and leading the teams that make this possible is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.\n\n\n\nThe Team: https://convex.dev/about-us\n\nConvex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the teams that shape the Convex developer (and agent) experience. It's an ambitious and fast-moving mandate that spans a large surface area, from our development APIs, to agent frameworks, to integrations, to the component system that makes Convex effortless to build with. The unifying goal is simple to say and hard to do: be the best platform for developers, for building agents, and for agentic development.\n\nThis isn't a role where you hand off the technical work and manage from above. You'll help engineers understand why they're building what they're building, give them real ownership, and develop their judgment on how good something needs to be before it ships, all while staying in the architecture discussions and decisions about what to build and why. If you want to build a team that holds itself to a standard where 'it technically works' is never the finish line, you're going to like it here.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\n - Manage and grow the teams spanning our product experience, giving engineers real ownership and holding them to a high bar.\n\n - Develop a strong understanding of what developers and agents need from Convex and use it to make tradeoffs between competing priorities.\n\n - Work closely with our CTO and product lead to align the teams on priorities and make sure we're building the right things at the right time.\n\n - Stay hands-on technically, contributing to architecture decisions, code review, and technical direction.\n\n - Design, build, and maintain the developer-facing surfaces of Convex alongside the teams.\n\n - Give direct feedback and have hard conversations when they're needed.\n\n - Occasionally put up with James asking if there's a simpler more elegant solution to a problem.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - Deep experience building and shipping high-quality developer-facing products or tools, ideally at a technical or developer tools company.\n\n - A track record of growing engineers and building strong teams, not just shipping software.\n\n - Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and agents need from a platform like Convex.\n\n - Strong product sensibility and taste. You care about closing the gap between something that works and something that's a genuine pleasure to use.\n\n - Comfort with prioritization and tradeoffs across a broad surface area, and the judgment to know what matters for customers and what matters for the business.\n\n - Experience working in fast-moving environments where requirements shift and many of the hardest problems are not fully specified upfront.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of engineering managers who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for conceptual thought and architectural sensibilities, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY DEEPLY TECHNICAL?\n\nThe best engineering managers we've worked with never really stopped being engineers. They have opinions about technical decisions, they can actually evaluate the work their team is doing, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get deep in the weeds with the team, you're going to have a hard time leading engineers who live there.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY DEVELOP PEOPLE, NOT JUST SHIP SOFTWARE?\n\nThe job here isn't to be the best engineer on the team or to review every line of code. It's to give engineers real ownership, hold them to it, and help them get better over time. Sometimes that means stepping in, sometimes it means getting out of the way, and sometimes it means having a hard conversation nobody wants to have. A good manager knows the difference and takes responsibility for the team's outcomes either way.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY DO IT FOR THE WHY?\n\nAt Convex, \"my manager told me to\" is not a satisfactory answer to why we're building something, even if the manager is the CTO. Engineers here don't just do things because they're told, they do them because they believe in them. A great EM spends the time to make sure the team understands the why, and when there's a disagreement, digs into the root of it rather than pulling rank.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY OBSESSED WITH CRAFT?\n\nCraft is the difference between something that technically works and something people actually love to use, and it's most of what separates a good developer platform from a great one. We want a manager who sweats the details most people would let slide, holds a high bar for how things feel to build with, and can pull that same standard out of the engineers around them.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and it turns out it's at the heart of good engineering leadership too. We want someone with a bias toward doing fewer things better, who pushes back on unnecessary complexity, and who knows when to tell the team to stop gold-plating something and just ship it because we're a startup and need to move.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY WORTHY OF TRUST?\n\nIntegrity underlies everything we do at Convex, and for a manager it matters even more. The team needs to trust that you'll be honest with them, go to bat for them, and do the right thing when no one is watching. Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy. 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Convex has assembled a team that has built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, and scaled companies to millions in revenue and thousands of employees. We’re a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
Might as well say the obvious thing out loud: running marketing is hard. “Marketing” is a collection of wildly differing disciplines: brand, product marketing, demand gen, content, community, and events. Most companies ask one person to be great at all of it, end up with someone fine at everything, and spend the next year disappointed about the gaps. We'd rather be honest up front about the challenge, and find a leader who has the self-awareness to know what they’re truly excellent at with the taste to fill the gaps where they’re not.
At a company our stage the founders (James and Jamie) are the de facto CMO(s). They have strong, earned perspectives. The right hire is comfortable working with that: taking founder conviction and making it sharper, while still able to defend their views.
The job itself is to own how we tell the world about Convex. You'll work with the team that already exists and hire for what’s missing as the strategy demands it.
We'll be straight with you: we’re going to be deliberately picky on this one. There’s more bad marketing in the world than good, and the founders can keep doing this job for a while. If that reads as a challenge, good.
What You'll Do:
Own Convex marketing end to end: positioning, launches, content, community, events, and brand.
Decide what we don't do. Pick the two or three motions that matter most and go deep.
Work directly with the founders, helping them refine their points of view into excellent marketing.
Build and lead a small, excellent marketing team over time, and do the work yourself until it exists.
Set the quality bar: nothing hypey, nothing generic, nothing we'd be embarrassed to put in front of a skeptical engineer.
Ship a bunch of cool marketing nobody would believe came from a database company.
What Excites Us:
A track record of marketing leadership at a technical or developer-facing company, with results you can point to and explain the mechanics of.
Genuine excellence in at least one discipline (product marketing, brand, content, or community) and the judgment to hire people better than you at the rest.
Experience working directly with founders: the confidence to push back and the security to execute someone else's conviction well when they're right.
Comfort being hands-on. You'll set the strategy and you'll write the post.
A reliable nose for the difference between substance and hype.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
Developer tools are different. Your audience is technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. Marketing that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who markets accordingly.
Marketing has more surface area than any team our size can cover, and the leaders who fail try to cover it anyway. We want someone who can look at brand, demand gen, product marketing, community, and events, pick the few that matter for us right now, and say no to the rest without flinching. That's not just execution discipline, it's a strategic bet. Doing fewer things better is the whole game.
Founders have to move fast, often hold strong opinions, and need to think ahead of the market. Working well in that environment means knowing when to push back, being direct without being difficult, and building trust through good judgment rather than process. This person will spend a lot of time with our founding team and needs to thrive in that dynamic. Although to be honest we're a pretty friendly founder team.
Our whole approach is that honesty outperforms hype with this audience. We want someone who finds buzzword marketing a little embarrassing and is genuinely better at the harder thing: making the real substance land. Show us a launch you're proud of that didn't oversell.
The best marketing leaders we've met never stopped making things. They have opinions about the headline, they can write the post themselves when it matters, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get in the weeds with the work, you're going to have a hard time leading the people who live there.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $250,000 + equity + benefits
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We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nMight as well say the obvious thing out loud: running marketing is hard. “Marketing” is a collection of wildly differing disciplines: brand, product marketing, demand gen, content, community, and events. Most companies ask one person to be great at all of it, end up with someone fine at everything, and spend the next year disappointed about the gaps. We'd rather be honest up front about the challenge, and find a leader who has the self-awareness to know what they’re truly excellent at with the taste to fill the gaps where they’re not.\n\nAt a company our stage the founders (James and Jamie) are the de facto CMO(s). They have strong, earned perspectives. The right hire is comfortable working with that: taking founder conviction and making it sharper, while still able to defend their views.\n\nThe job itself is to own how we tell the world about Convex. You'll work with the team that already exists and hire for what’s missing as the strategy demands it.\n\nWe'll be straight with you: we’re going to be deliberately picky on this one. There’s more bad marketing in the world than good, and the founders can keep doing this job for a while. If that reads as a challenge, good.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Own Convex marketing end to end: positioning, launches, content, community, events, and brand.\n\n - Decide what we don't do. Pick the two or three motions that matter most and go deep.\n\n - Work directly with the founders, helping them refine their points of view into excellent marketing.\n\n - Build and lead a small, excellent marketing team over time, and do the work yourself until it exists.\n\n - Set the quality bar: nothing hypey, nothing generic, nothing we'd be embarrassed to put in front of a skeptical engineer.\n\n - Ship a bunch of cool marketing nobody would believe came from a database company.\n \n \n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - A track record of marketing leadership at a technical or developer-facing company, with results you can point to and explain the mechanics of.\n\n - Genuine excellence in at least one discipline (product marketing, brand, content, or community) and the judgment to hire people better than you at the rest.\n\n - Experience working directly with founders: the confidence to push back and the security to execute someone else's conviction well when they're right.\n\n - Comfort being hands-on. You'll set the strategy and you'll write the post.\n\n - A reliable nose for the difference between substance and hype.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY GET DEVELOPERS?\n\nDeveloper tools are different. Your audience is technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. Marketing that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who markets accordingly.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY PRIORITIZE RUTHLESSLY?\n\nMarketing has more surface area than any team our size can cover, and the leaders who fail try to cover it anyway. We want someone who can look at brand, demand gen, product marketing, community, and events, pick the few that matter for us right now, and say no to the rest without flinching. That's not just execution discipline, it's a strategic bet. Doing fewer things better is the whole game.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH FOUNDERS?\n\nFounders have to move fast, often hold strong opinions, and need to think ahead of the market. Working well in that environment means knowing when to push back, being direct without being difficult, and building trust through good judgment rather than process. This person will spend a lot of time with our founding team and needs to thrive in that dynamic. Although to be honest we're a pretty friendly founder team.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY MARKET WITHOUT THE BS?\n\nOur whole approach is that honesty outperforms hype with this audience. We want someone who finds buzzword marketing a little embarrassing and is genuinely better at the harder thing: making the real substance land. Show us a launch you're proud of that didn't oversell.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY STILL DO THE WORK?\n\nThe best marketing leaders we've met never stopped making things. They have opinions about the headline, they can write the post themselves when it matters, and they earn respect through judgment rather than a title on an org chart. If you can't get in the weeds with the work, you're going to have a hard time leading the people who live there.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. 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Convex has assembled a team that has built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world and scaled companies to millions in revenue and thousands of employees. We’re a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We have a real point of view and an obsession with craft. So far, this comes through mostly in our product. We need someone to own the creative identity of Convex and define what that looks and feels like. Our customers are developers, who can spot inauthenticity instantly. The brand has to be distinct, thoughtful, a little playful, and honest. The kind of thing a skeptical engineer trusts on sight.
The scope is broad. Brand, product design, marketing, events, the website: everything a developer encounters. The challenge isn't just doing the work, it's deciding what matters most. Convex is moving fast and there's more to own than any one person can cover, so the best person for this role is someone with the strategic judgment to prioritize ruthlessly and the conviction to hold a creative vision across a wide surface area.
This is a build-it-yourself role before it's a manage-it role. You'll be doing the work yourself, in Figma and in the codebase, working directly with the founders on brand and product. As we grow you'll hire a small, excellent group around you to scale your vision.
What You'll Do:
Set the creative strategy for how Convex shows up across brand and product, and make the calls on what to prioritize.
Own the Convex brand and identity across every touch point.
Do the work yourself now (alongside our existing team of creative freelancers), and build a small, world-class creative team later.
Set and hold the bar for taste across everything.
Keep us honest: kill the marketing BS before it ships, including ours.
Make a bunch of cool stuff.
What Excites Us:
A portfolio with range: brand systems and product design, not just one or the other.
Taste that's calibrated for a technical, skeptical audience and a track record to prove it.
The ability to set direction and also open the file and do the work.
The judgment to prioritize across a broad surface area and hold a creative vision while doing it.
Experience building or leading a small creative team.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for taste, craft, and commercial instinct, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
We don't mean taste as an abstraction. We mean a track record of shipping things that are genuinely excellent, and a strong point of view on why they're good. Excellence can't be learned passively; we want to see the work and hear the reasoning behind it.
Great creative leaders have a point of view on where the brand should go, not just how to execute what's in front of them. We want someone who can look at Convex and form a clear opinion about what it should stand for visually, how it should evolve, and what it should never be. That conviction is what makes a brand coherent over time.
Strategy without execution is just theory. The best creative leaders we've seen can go from a brand direction conversation with a founder to opening Figma and making it real themselves. We need both, and we need them in the same person.
Developer tools are different. Positioning that works for a consumer app or a sales-led B2B product falls flat with engineers, who are quick to spot anything that doesn't ring true. We want someone who understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a skeptical developer deciding whether to trust a tool.
The best design, like the best systems, is simple. We have a bias toward doing fewer things and doing them really well, and we want a creative leader who shares it: someone who can make a hard idea feel obvious and a complex surface feel intentional.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $250,000 + equity + benefits
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Convex is moving fast and there's more to own than any one person can cover, so the best person for this role is someone with the strategic judgment to prioritize ruthlessly and the conviction to hold a creative vision across a wide surface area.\n\nThis is a build-it-yourself role before it's a manage-it role. You'll be doing the work yourself, in Figma and in the codebase, working directly with the founders on brand and product. 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We have a high demand for taste, craft, and commercial instinct, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE TASTE, WITH RECEIPTS?\n\nWe don't mean taste as an abstraction. We mean a track record of shipping things that are genuinely excellent, and a strong point of view on why they're good. Excellence can't be learned passively; we want to see the work and hear the reasoning behind it.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY THINK STRATEGICALLY ABOUT BRAND?\n\nGreat creative leaders have a point of view on where the brand should go, not just how to execute what's in front of them. We want someone who can look at Convex and form a clear opinion about what it should stand for visually, how it should evolve, and what it should never be. That conviction is what makes a brand coherent over time.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY EXECUTE AND DREAM?\n\nStrategy without execution is just theory. The best creative leaders we've seen can go from a brand direction conversation with a founder to opening Figma and making it real themselves. We need both, and we need them in the same person.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY GET DEVELOPERS?\n\nDeveloper tools are different. Positioning that works for a consumer app or a sales-led B2B product falls flat with engineers, who are quick to spot anything that doesn't ring true. We want someone who understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a skeptical developer deciding whether to trust a tool.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY?\n\nThe best design, like the best systems, is simple. We have a bias toward doing fewer things and doing them really well, and we want a creative leader who shares it: someone who can make a hard idea feel obvious and a complex surface feel intentional.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. 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Convex has assembled a team that has built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, and scaled companies to millions in revenue and thousands of employees. We’re a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We ship frequently, but aren’t great at talking about it. That's the whole problem this role exists to solve. Once developers find us they tend to stick around. One of the highest-leverage things we could be doing right now is simply making sure the world hears about everything we build, in a way that sounds like us and not like everyone else. Your job will be to own how Convex talks about what it builds, across every channel.
The hard part is the how. Developers have an immune response to hype; we'd sooner publish a \"how to give Convex less money\" post than pretend what we do is magic. The most persuasive thing we can do is show the substance plainly and trust that good engineers will recognize it. You'll need a good sense for the difference between substance and spin, and a strong enough point of view to hold the line even when the easy thing is to reach for the buzzword.
You'll drive the launch strategy and you'll also write the post and cut the assets. We're too small for the kind of product marketer who only makes slides. If you like the idea of running the whole thing for a product developers genuinely love, you're going to like it here.
What You'll Do:
Make sure every meaningful thing we ship is heard by the developers who'd care.
Drive launches end to end: everything from the narrative through the actual assets.
Translate engineering work into something developers care about, honestly, without reaching for hype.
Ensure we're talking about our work consistently, not in occasional bursts.
Be the connective tissue between engineering, developer experience, design, and creators.
What Excites Us:
Experience marketing a technical or developer product without making developers cringe.
Proven ability to own a launch completely, from the first brief to the final asset.
Enough organization to run a real launch calendar and keep things moving.
Strong writing with technical developer-facing work to show for it.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
Developer tools are different. Your audience is technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. Marketing that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who markets accordingly.
Our whole approach is that honesty outperforms hype with this audience. We want someone who finds buzzwords a little embarrassing and is genuinely better at the harder thing: making the real substance land.
Writing is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.
The best product marketing we've seen doesn't just describe what shipped, it makes a case for why it matters. We want someone who can look at a feature, a product decision, or a new capability and form a strong opinion about the story worth telling, then tell it in a way that earns a developer's attention rather than demanding it.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $175,000 + equity + benefits
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We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nWe ship frequently, but aren’t great at talking about it. That's the whole problem this role exists to solve. Once developers find us they tend to stick around. One of the highest-leverage things we could be doing right now is simply making sure the world hears about everything we build, in a way that sounds like us and not like everyone else. Your job will be to own how Convex talks about what it builds, across every channel.\n\nThe hard part is the how. Developers have an immune response to hype; we'd sooner publish a \"how to give Convex less money\" post than pretend what we do is magic. The most persuasive thing we can do is show the substance plainly and trust that good engineers will recognize it. You'll need a good sense for the difference between substance and spin, and a strong enough point of view to hold the line even when the easy thing is to reach for the buzzword.\n\nYou'll drive the launch strategy and you'll also write the post and cut the assets. We're too small for the kind of product marketer who only makes slides. If you like the idea of running the whole thing for a product developers genuinely love, you're going to like it here.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Make sure every meaningful thing we ship is heard by the developers who'd care.\n\n - Drive launches end to end: everything from the narrative through the actual assets.\n\n - Translate engineering work into something developers care about, honestly, without reaching for hype.\n\n - Ensure we're talking about our work consistently, not in occasional bursts.\n\n - Be the connective tissue between engineering, developer experience, design, and creators.\n \n \n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - Experience marketing a technical or developer product without making developers cringe.\n\n - Proven ability to own a launch completely, from the first brief to the final asset.\n\n - Enough organization to run a real launch calendar and keep things moving.\n\n - Strong writing with technical developer-facing work to show for it.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY GET DEVELOPERS?\n\nDeveloper tools are different. Your audience is technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. Marketing that works for a business app falls flat here. We want someone who has internalized what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who markets accordingly.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY MARKET WITHOUT THE BS?\n\nOur whole approach is that honesty outperforms hype with this audience. We want someone who finds buzzwords a little embarrassing and is genuinely better at the harder thing: making the real substance land.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY ACTUALLY WRITE?\n\nWriting is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE A POINT OF VIEW?\n\nThe best product marketing we've seen doesn't just describe what shipped, it makes a case for why it matters. We want someone who can look at a feature, a product decision, or a new capability and form a strong opinion about the story worth telling, then tell it in a way that earns a developer's attention rather than demanding it.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. 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A new platform abstraction is needed to support agentic development, agentic applications, and an entirely new set of application workloads. We think Convex is the team and platform best placed to define this abstraction.
Convex works differently from the tools people are used to. The right way to build with it isn't always obvious, and increasingly the developer learning it is an agent rather than a person. Helping people and their agents make sense of something this new is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.
Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people who love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
We're looking for a Head of Developer Experience to own how developers and agents become great at building on Convex. You'll set the strategy, hold the point of view, and lead the team behind it. The docs, the writing, the developer narrative, and the advocacy your team takes to the community all flow from one thing: a real understanding of the product and a clear opinion on how people should build on it.
Some weeks you'll go deep with the engineering team on something we just shipped and turn it into docs a developer, or the agent writing their code, can pick up easily. Other weeks you'll step back to decide what story we're telling developers this quarter, where the docs are falling short, and what your team should focus on next. The best person for this is someone who's genuinely excited to move between all of it.
What You'll Do:
Set the strategy and point of view for how developers and agents learn to be successful on Convex.
Lead and grow the developer experience team, and build out documentation as a function over time.
Own the Convex docs and the information architecture behind them, ensuring that Convex stays legible from a developer's first day to their most expert work, for humans and agents alike.
Craft the writing and developer narrative that shape how people understand Convex, from our blog to the way we explain what we ship.
Work closely with engineering and the founders to turn what we build into things people can learn from.
What Excites Us:
You've written developer docs or technical content that real developers relied on, and you have the work to show for it.
You've led a team before, ideally one doing developer-facing or content work, and know how to grow people and help them do their best work.
You can code, or read it closely enough to keep every example honest.
Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and their agents need.
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for deep thinking and clear communication, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
Writing is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.
The best developer content and the best developer experience both come from someone who has a clear idea of what good looks like and pushes for it. We want someone who can look at how developers build on Convex today, form a strong opinion about how they should, and then build the docs, the writing, and the team to make that real.
You don't have to be the strongest engineer in the room, but you do have to engage seriously with the technical material and earn the team's trust. Convex is genuinely deep, and hand-waving doesn't survive contact with a skeptical developer. It shouldn't survive contact with you first.
This is a leadership role, so a big part of the job is getting great work out of other people, not just producing it yourself. That means hiring well, giving people real ownership, developing their judgment, and caring more about what the team ships than what you could have written on your own. The best leaders we've worked with are the ones who make everyone around them better.
We have a bias toward doing fewer things better. A lot of this job is telling what actually matters apart from what's merely nice to have, pointing the team at the former, and shipping it rather than polishing forever. It's a startup, and knowing what to leave undone matters as much as knowing what to build.
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
* The salary range for this full-time position is > $250,000 + equity + benefits
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The best person for this is someone who's genuinely excited to move between all of it.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Set the strategy and point of view for how developers and agents learn to be successful on Convex.\n\n - Lead and grow the developer experience team, and build out documentation as a function over time.\n\n - Own the Convex docs https://docs.convex.dev/home and the information architecture behind them, ensuring that Convex stays legible from a developer's first day to their most expert work, for humans and agents alike.\n\n - Craft the writing and developer narrative that shape how people understand Convex, from our blog stack.convex.dev to the way we explain what we ship.\n\n - Work closely with engineering and the founders to turn what we build into things people can learn from.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - You've written developer docs or technical content that real developers relied on, and you have the work to show for it.\n\n - You've led a team before, ideally one doing developer-facing or content work, and know how to grow people and help them do their best work.\n\n - You can code, or read it closely enough to keep every example honest.\n\n - Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and their agents need.\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for deep thinking and clear communication, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY ACTUALLY WRITE?\n\nWriting is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY HAVE A POINT OF VIEW?\n\nThe best developer content and the best developer experience both come from someone who has a clear idea of what good looks like and pushes for it. We want someone who can look at how developers build on Convex today, form a strong opinion about how they should, and then build the docs, the writing, and the team to make that real.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY GO DEEP TECHNICALLY?\n\nYou don't have to be the strongest engineer in the room, but you do have to engage seriously with the technical material and earn the team's trust. Convex is genuinely deep, and hand-waving doesn't survive contact with a skeptical developer. It shouldn't survive contact with you first.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY BUILD AND LEAD A TEAM?\n\nThis is a leadership role, so a big part of the job is getting great work out of other people, not just producing it yourself. That means hiring well, giving people real ownership, developing their judgment, and caring more about what the team ships than what you could have written on your own. The best leaders we've worked with are the ones who make everyone around them better.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nWe have a bias toward doing fewer things better. A lot of this job is telling what actually matters apart from what's merely nice to have, pointing the team at the former, and shipping it rather than polishing forever. It's a startup, and knowing what to leave undone matters as much as knowing what to build.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. 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Convex has assembled a team that has built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, and scaled companies to millions in revenue and thousands of employees. We’re a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people that love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.
The Role:
Every week thousands of developers sign up for Convex, then start building and deploying on us. Some are kicking the tires. Some are quietly building the next big company. Your job is to help build the systems to find signal in the noise, and help us act. We’re looking for our first GTM Engineer to help us engage at just the right moment without being annoying about it.
You'll design, build, and ship the workflows and data infrastructure that turn product and market signal into pipeline, plus the internal apps and tools that compound our output. You'll walk in, audit what we have, decide what's missing, and start shipping.
Our users are developers, which makes this harder and more interesting than GTM engineering at most companies. Developers have antibodies against generic outbound, and the most valuable signal lives in product usage, not a lead form. We are deeply allergic to slop: the last thing the world needs is another ill-conceived cold email, and we won't ship one. Anything we send should be something a thoughtful person would be glad to receive. We’re not anti-AI by any means (helps us stay lean and move fast), and you'll be the person who keeps us on the right side of the line. The plays that work here are technical, specific, and earned, which is why we think the best version of this role is held by someone technical enough to build on Convex themselves.
What You'll Do:
Turn Convex product usage into the GTM signal it should be: model which deploys are getting serious, surface intent the moment a team crosses a threshold, and route it to the right play or the right human automatically.
Build agent + human-in-the-loop outbound that's genuinely useful, and keep it from ever becoming slop.
Build the AI agents and internal tools that compound the commercial team's output as we grow.
Audit the stack, generate your own backlog, and know when to reach for a point-and-click tool versus building something custom. Do the unglamorous data cleanup that makes all of it trustworthy.
Write a bunch of cool GTM code on Convex itself. We dogfood.
Measure your results and double down on what works best.
What Excites Us:
A few years spent building revenue and automation systems, whether you got there through Revenue Operations, Sales Ops, growth engineering, or as a software engineer who drifted toward the commercial side. You don't need \"GTM Engineer\" on your resume; the title barely existed a year ago, and we care far more about what you've built than what it was called.
Technical enough to build and wire systems together yourself. You don't have to be a career software engineer, but you're comfortable with APIs, data, and a bit of code (SQL, a scripting language, or TypeScript, which is what Convex itself is built in).
Hands-on experience inside a modern GTM stack.
Hands-on with AI in real work, not just in theory. You know where models are reliable and where they break, and you’re not afraid to fire up Claude Code or Codex to stand things up yourself rather than waiting on someone else.
Systems thinking: you consider what happens at 10x volume, when an API goes down, or when the same account hits your queue five times in parallel, and you design for it instead of leaving debt for someone else to unwind.
Bonus points for exposure to technical or developer-led sales motions, or genuine curiosity about Convex itself (building something small on it before you start wouldn't go unnoticed).
Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.
This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.
The job is not to do GTM work faster by hand. It's to build the machine that does it. We want someone who, handed a recurring manual process, instinctively reaches for the version that runs itself. Someone who has built things that kept working after they walked away, and who measures their impact in leverage created, not hours logged.
Developer tools are different. Your users are technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. The plays that work for a business app fall flat here. We want someone who understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who builds GTM motions that respect that instead of spamming through it.
The best GTM engineers we've met are hybrids: they care about revenue and they can ship. Not a marketer who can't build, not an engineer who doesn't care whether the work moves the business. We want someone who lives in the middle and is genuinely good at both.
Simplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and GTM systems are no different. Don't come here to build a Rube Goldberg machine of fifty chained automations. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way
Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.
*The salary range for this full-time position is > $160,000 + equity + benefits
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We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.\n\n\n\nThe Role:\n\nEvery week thousands of developers sign up for Convex, then start building and deploying on us. Some are kicking the tires. Some are quietly building the next big company. Your job is to help build the systems to find signal in the noise, and help us act. We’re looking for our first GTM Engineer to help us engage at just the right moment without being annoying about it.\n\nYou'll design, build, and ship the workflows and data infrastructure that turn product and market signal into pipeline, plus the internal apps and tools that compound our output. You'll walk in, audit what we have, decide what's missing, and start shipping.\n\nOur users are developers, which makes this harder and more interesting than GTM engineering at most companies. Developers have antibodies against generic outbound, and the most valuable signal lives in product usage, not a lead form. We are deeply allergic to slop: the last thing the world needs is another ill-conceived cold email, and we won't ship one. Anything we send should be something a thoughtful person would be glad to receive. We’re not anti-AI by any means (helps us stay lean and move fast), and you'll be the person who keeps us on the right side of the line. The plays that work here are technical, specific, and earned, which is why we think the best version of this role is held by someone technical enough to build on Convex themselves.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n - Turn Convex product usage into the GTM signal it should be: model which deploys are getting serious, surface intent the moment a team crosses a threshold, and route it to the right play or the right human automatically.\n\n - Build agent + human-in-the-loop outbound that's genuinely useful, and keep it from ever becoming slop.\n\n - Build the AI agents and internal tools that compound the commercial team's output as we grow.\n\n - Audit the stack, generate your own backlog, and know when to reach for a point-and-click tool versus building something custom. Do the unglamorous data cleanup that makes all of it trustworthy.\n\n - Write a bunch of cool GTM code on Convex itself. We dogfood.\n\n - Measure your results and double down on what works best.\n\n\n\nWhat Excites Us:\n\n - A few years spent building revenue and automation systems, whether you got there through Revenue Operations, Sales Ops, growth engineering, or as a software engineer who drifted toward the commercial side. You don't need \"GTM Engineer\" on your resume; the title barely existed a year ago, and we care far more about what you've built than what it was called.\n\n - Technical enough to build and wire systems together yourself. You don't have to be a career software engineer, but you're comfortable with APIs, data, and a bit of code (SQL, a scripting language, or TypeScript, which is what Convex itself is built in).\n\n - Hands-on experience inside a modern GTM stack.\n\n - Hands-on with AI in real work, not just in theory. You know where models are reliable and where they break, and you’re not afraid to fire up Claude Code or Codex to stand things up yourself rather than waiting on someone else.\n\n - Systems thinking: you consider what happens at 10x volume, when an API goes down, or when the same account hits your queue five times in parallel, and you design for it instead of leaving debt for someone else to unwind.\n\n - Bonus points for exposure to technical or developer-led sales motions, or genuine curiosity about Convex itself (building something small on it before you start wouldn't go unnoticed).\n\n - Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.\n\n\n\n\nIDEAL CHARACTERISTICS\n\nThis is an attempt to outline some characteristics of candidates who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for both commercial judgment and the ability to actually build, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY THINK IN SYSTEMS, NOT TASKS?\n\nThe job is not to do GTM work faster by hand. It's to build the machine that does it. We want someone who, handed a recurring manual process, instinctively reaches for the version that runs itself. Someone who has built things that kept working after they walked away, and who measures their impact in leverage created, not hours logged.\n\n\n\n\nCAN THEY EARN A DEVELOPER'S TRUST?\n\nDeveloper tools are different. Your users are technical, skeptical, and quick to spot inauthenticity. The plays that work for a business app fall flat here. We want someone who understands, in their bones, what it feels like to be a developer evaluating a product, and who builds GTM motions that respect that instead of spamming through it.\n\n\n\n\nARE THEY A COMMERCIALLY ORIENTED BUILDER?\n\nThe best GTM engineers we've met are hybrids: they care about revenue and they can ship. Not a marketer who can't build, not an engineer who doesn't care whether the work moves the business. We want someone who lives in the middle and is genuinely good at both.\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?\n\nSimplicity is at the heart of all good systems, and GTM systems are no different. Don't come here to build a Rube Goldberg machine of fifty chained automations. Come here because you want to get really good at achieving great things in the simplest possible way\n\n\n\n\nDO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?\n\nStartups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.\n\n\n\n*The salary range for this full-time position is > $160,000 + equity + benefits"}],"apiVersion":"1"}