Software Engineer – Infra

🕒 March 27

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $180k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Numeral (YC W23)

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Compliance

💰 $500k Pre Seed Round on 2023-04

eCommerce • SaaS • Compliance

Numeral is a company backed by Y Combinator that offers an automated solution for sales tax compliance, targeting eCommerce and SaaS businesses. Their platform helps clients connect their businesses, monitor sales, register in tax applicable states, collect appropriate taxes, and remit them in a streamlined process. By automating and managing various aspects of sales tax registration, collection, and remittance, Numeral enables businesses to significantly reduce the time spent on these tasks to under five minutes per month. Trusted by leading businesses, Numeral provides a reliable, all-in-one platform ensuring timely compliance across numerous tax jurisdictions, simplifying the complex world of sales tax for its users.

📋 Description

• Design and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support critical APIs, services, and data pipelines. • Lead infrastructure architecture decisions for performance, observability, and fault tolerance. • Drive improvements in system reliability, monitoring, and incident response. • Collaborate closely with product, platform, and data engineering teams to enable rapid feature development without compromising stability. • Automate infrastructure management through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration. • Champion best practices in operational excellence, disaster recovery, and distributed systems design.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend or infrastructure systems in high-growth environments • Proficiency in Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS (or equivalent cloud platforms) • Experience managing containerized workloads using tools like Kubernetes, ECS, or similar • Expertise in observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and monitoring pipelines • Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, distributed systems at scale • Strong debugging and performance optimization skills across the stack • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering cross-functionally • Startup mindset: Not scared of ambiguity and hungry for rapid growth • Intensity & Ownership: This is not a 9-5 — we’re scaling rapidly and have a massive opportunity ahead of us. • Customer Obsession: You deeply care about the user experience and solving their problems

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity - you’ll share directly in the company’s success • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage • Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App • 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security • Lunch and snacks when you’re in the office • Regular team offsites and company events as we grow • A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it!