About Census

Census is how data teams at companies like Figma, Notion, Rippling, Clearbit, and Fivetran build better business operations.

With Census, analysts can turn their data warehouse into a single source of truth and publish their insights directly into the apps that marketing & sales teams use daily. With live data, these teams can build better campaigns, understand what users are doing, and ultimately drive more sustainable revenue.

We're a hybrid team headquartered in San Francisco who love taking annoying problems most people avoid and building simple solutions for them. We believe that data should be used for more than just making charts. This is why we built the first integration platform that works directly within cloud data warehouses.

Your Mission

• As a Senior Backend Engineer at Census, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to create and scale a data platform to billions of records.
• We have a small team of engineers with decades of industry experience from places like Amazon, Google and Dropbox as well tons of startup experience (we have 6 former YC founders on staff).
• If you are looking for a role where you can influence both the company culture and product experience, read on.

Your responsibilities

• You will make contributions to the back-end part of our tech stack, working with technologies such as Ruby, Python, Typescript, Heroku, AWS, and GCP.
• You will work closely with our product team to help design and develop new features.
• You will inform much of our early culture and be part of creating a truly special team.
• You will be an active member of our sprint process - we do short sprint plans once every two weeks and 20 minute daily virtual standups.
• You won't burn out – we are building a great product while creating a fun, family-friendly culture.
• You will learn some of our lingo, like "do nothing", "done done", "ponies" and "ur-*".

Our ideal candidate

• Has experience building high scale data systems.
• Can build things end-to-end. Our engineers build, deploy and maintain their code.
• Has a Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Math or equivalent experience.
• Thrive in small company / ambiguous environment where you get to work directly with customers and make decisions that have a huge impact on the business.