\nRole overview:\n\nAs a Principal Product Engineering Lead, you will lead one of the crucial teams that ultimately determines our success or failure. Our product's innovativeness and quality, as well as our engineering execution, play a big part in whether we become the indisputably best way to work remotely.\n\nThere are several challenges that make product engineering at Gather uniquely tough yet rewarding. For example, the design challenge of “how do you replicate a real-life office in a virtual world” requires engineers to prototype extremely quickly and draw on the best ideas from game design to social apps to VR, if not invent new UX paradigms altogether.\n\nOn the other hand, using virtual worlds for work for 8 hours a day is a foreign concept to our users, so shipping with a high degree of quality is important to make users feel delighted and understood, not confused. Often, we need to go the extra mile on polish (or game feel) to make the experience work.\n\nWe are looking for engineers with a high level of craft, product sense, and pace to help us create our next-generation product. You will tackle some of our hardest problems at the intersection of product and engineering and then help mentor the rest of the team on how to hit a higher bar of excellence. This role can potentially have formal management responsibilities over a small team, depending on your preference.\n\nBonus: if you have read Creative Selection, you felt like the author described your dream job.\n\nWhere you will make an impact:\n\n\n* Solve some of our hardest problems at the intersection of product and engineering\n\n* Uplevel the team in pace, product sense, and quality, and mentor other members of the team to improve their craft\n\n* Drive high-quality technical decision-making for your team\n\n* Work closely with product and design to shape large parts of the company’s strategy and direction\n\n* Identify opportunities in the development process or technical bottlenecks to make the team more efficient\n\n* Help foster a culture with high agency, accountability, and camaraderie\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring:\n\n\n* Extremely high technical proficiency in full-stack engineering\n\n* Strong product sense and ability to quickly navigate the creative process of creating entirely new product experiences from scratch\n\n* A keen intuition for well-designed software and beautiful, usable interfaces\n\n* Intrinsic motivation and the drive to solve difficult problems without guidance\n\n* An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback\n\n* You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast\n\n* You enjoy spending time understanding customers and are adept at getting to the root problems that your product is uniquely positioned to solve\n\n\n\n\nUS Salary Range\n\nAt Gather, compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $215,000 - $265,000 annually and we encourage candidates outside of this salary range to apply.\n\nBase pay is one part of the total package provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role will be eligible for a stock reward reflective of an early-stage startup.\nBenefits\n\n\n\n* Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!\n\n* Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents\n\n* 401k and matching program\n\n* Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge\n\n* Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished\n\n* Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend\n\n* Support for family planning & gender-affirmation\n\n* The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Design jobs that are similar:\n\n $95,000 — $125,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Role overview:\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer within the Video team, you would take responsibility (along with a small team) for the design and implementation of this integral part of our video platform. \n\nVideo lies at the heart of the Gather experience, providing a low-latency, seamless experience for the spontaneous interactions we're known for. Our video infrastructure handles thousands of concurrent users, spanning all continents of the world.\n\nUnlike traditional room-based video infrastructure, our video infra allows any two users to have an audio/video connection in an instant — enabling experiences where a speaker can address a large audience while the audience remains quiet to the speaker, yet the audience can still mingle amongst their neighbors, just like in real life. Our self-operated video infrastructure spans 5 data centers, and multiple clouds, and features an SFU design built in-house.\nWhere you will make an impact:\n\n\n* Deliver the tastiest, most appealing video frames our users’ internet connections can endure\n\n* Optimize our video servers until they laugh with glee at the notion of having hundreds of simultaneous meeting participants\n\n* Degrade quality with grace for bandwidth or CPU-constrained devices, and handle spurious spikes in latency/congestion with a shout of “Not today, internet weather!”\n\n* Build tools that guide us to our goal of an exceptionally reliable meeting platform\n\n* Instrument our service until it looks like a time-traveling Delorean you saw in those movies\n\n* Build automated tests that ensure the reliability and performance of our video infrastructure as we make it more awesome\n\n\n\nWhat you bring:\n\n\n\n* Experience working on a large-scale group video calling platform (e.g. Zoom or Google Meet)\n\n* Experience working with WebRTC, either directly or with libraries that use it\n\n* Intrinsic motivation and drive to solve difficult problems without guidance\n\n* A keen intuition for well-designed software\n\n* Ability to thoughtfully stack your priorities in an ever-changing startup environment\n\n* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills\n\n\n\nUS Salary Range\n\nAt Gather, compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $160,000 - $203,175 annually and we encourage candidates outside of this salary range to apply.\n\nBase pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for a stock reward program.\nBenefits\n\n\n\n* Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!\n\n* Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents\n\n* 401k and matching program\n\n* Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge\n\n* Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished\n\n* Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend\n\n* Support for family planning & gender-affirmation\n\n* The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Video, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

Role overview:\n\nYou’ll be responsible for the general infrastructure that underlies Gather’s services, from our game servers to our API servers. This encompasses the infrastructure-as-code, tools, configuration, automation, and scripts that build, deploy, and run our many services in cloud environments. In partnership with engineering leadership, you’ll implement security best-practices, guide long-term technology decisions, and build the future of Gather’s infrastructure.\nGather's Tech Stack\n\nGather is simultaneously a modern web app, multiplayer video game, and live video conferencing platform. This means our infrastructure involves several main components, all built in-house:\n\n\n* An HTTP service to serve the site and API\n\n* A game service to handle real-time game state updates\n\n* A video service to power live video chat\n\n\n\n\nGather's Application is currently written in Typescript (frontend/backend). Prior Typescript knowledge is not a requirement for the Infrastructure team.\nFocus areas that we could use a hand with\n\n\n* Security – as Gather grows, we have ever more responsibility to ensure the safety of our systems and customer data. We need an infrastructure engineer who is security-minded. Champion the infosec cause, and build air-tight VPCs.\n\n* Networking – we need a cutting-edge and rock-solid video network. Shave latency and thrill our users…with consistency.\n\n* Canary Environments – we’re constantly deploying, and that requires great care. Build the mechanisms that let us detect problems before they become an incident.\n\n* Multi-cloud Infrastructure – manage, troubleshoot, and deploy to multiple Kubernetes clusters. Spread them across multiple clouds and make sure they’re up through the worst datacenter outages.\n\n\n\nWhat you bring:\n\n\n\n* Software Engineering experience in Systems (OS, Distributed, Networking, etc.), Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, SRE, or related background.\n\n* Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the networking concepts that it relies upon. Deploying apps is just the beginning — you must be able to troubleshoot when they don’t.\n\n* Have experience implementing secure by-default designs and features in cloud infrastructure endpoints, tooling, and processes.\n\n* Experience implementing metrics and monitoring, sending data to one or more of Prometheus, New Relic, or Datadog.\n\n* Programming experience with one or more of Golang, Python, or NodeJS, and the ability to write applications that communicate with APIs like Kubernetes and AWS.\n\n* Linux operational expertise: know the ins and outs of Bash scripting and how to keep a system healthy.\n\n* Experience writing and maintaining Terraform stacks.\n\n* A love for learning and growing yourself and the team around you.\n\n* Strong collaboration and communication skills.\n\n* Excitement for a fast-paced, high-growth environment.\n\n* Passion for Gather and our mission to build a metaverse for all.\n\n\n\nNice to Haves:\n\n\n* Experience interpreting and implementing the requirements of a SOC2, GDPR, or ISO compliance program.\n\n* 1+ years' experience developing and implementing automation and security controls on AWS.\n\n* You compile Linux kernels not because you have to, but because you want to.\n\n* Understanding of the pros and cons of different release processes, and how to apply Git and other tools to achieve them.\n\n\n\nUS Salary Range\n\nAt Gather, compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $164,000 - $220,375 annually and we encourage candidates outside of this salary range to apply.\n\nBase pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for a stock reward program.\nBenefits\n\n\n\n* Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!\n\n* Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity\n\n* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents\n\n* 401k and matching program\n\n* Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge\n\n* Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished\n\n* Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend\n\n* Support for family planning & gender-affirmation\n\n* The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to InfoSec, Video, Cloud, Git, Typescript, API, Engineer and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, California, United States

\nRole overview:\n\nAs a Senior Data Engineer at Gather, you will be the first hire to help us scale our data infrastructure, automation, and tools to meet growing business needs. If you are excited about designing data pipelines, and motivated by having an impact on a platform that creates community and belonging for its users: we want to hear from you.\n\nWhere you’ll make an impact:\n\n\n* Collaborate with product managers, and fellow engineers to build and plan reliable and robust systems\n\n* Develop audits for data quality at scale, specifying, instrumenting, and implementing alerting, anomaly detection, and new logging events.\n\n* Work with our product and business intelligence teams to create scalable dashboards and reports to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making\n\n* Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that feed our data warehouse.\n\n* Establish best practices to ensure scalable data processing solutions.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you bring:\n\n\n5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or other related roles\n\nExperience writing accurate and effective code in Python; deep familiarity with the Python standard library and commonly used patterns for RDBMS integration and API delivery.\n\nExperience with setting up, maintaining, and debugging production systems and infrastructure\n\nExperience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or other data warehousing solutions\n\nExperience with data transformation tooling, such as Pandas, Spark, dbt, etc.\n\nExperience with Airflow, Oozie, or similar task orchestration/scheduling engines\n\nExperience with data modeling and SQL, including solid knowledge of various data stores and their tradeoffs (RDBMS’s, NoSQL, etc)\n\nDemonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills; Takes ownership of projects to communicate commitments to other stakeholders.\n\n\n\n\nNice-to-haves:\n\n\nExperience with Node.js, Typescript\n\nExperience working with marketing automation APIs\n\nExperience w/ 3rd party APIs\n\nExperience with large-scale distributed systems\n\nExperience working with gaming or live operations\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, API, Senior, Marketing and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

We're looking for smart people who love solving hard problems. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $100,000 — $135,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBoston