Pg Dog, a tiny database startup based in San Francisco, is looking for a founding software engineer. The role offers a $150K‑$225K salary, 1‑3% equity, and full remote flexibility across the US. You’ll work on Rust‑based, full‑stack features that ship directly to customers, tackling distributed systems, networking, and Postgres scaling. The first week involves fixing a bug or delivering a feature, the first month you’ll explore the codebase, and within three months you’ll help shape the product roadmap and even assist with recruiting.

Key projects include an advanced OLAP query engine that lets sharded Postgres queries run unchanged, and in‑place data redistribution to make Postgres scale like Cassandra or Elastic. Daily work is split roughly 30% bug fixes, 60% new features, and 10% infrastructure glue, all while digging through the Postgres manual and leveraging Rust’s safety and concurrency guarantees. The founder previously grew Instacart’s Postgres usage 5x in 2020 and has been coding in Rust for nearly a decade.

Benefits cover health and dental, unlimited PTO, and SF‑area perks like coffee, hikes, and walks with the team’s 90‑pound dog. Pg Dog aims to turn PostgreSQL into the single database you’ll ever need by building load‑balancing and sharding tools.