basalt

Careers

Help the world query the present.

We are 84 people building the realtime data layer behind 2,400 teams. Small squads, written decisions and an on-call rotation that rarely rings.

Open roles

11 open roles

Where

Remote across GMT±3

Summer

4-day weeks in August

Benefits

Good work needs good rest.

Real equity

Every hire gets stock options with a 10-year exercise window, so leaving never forces a tax bill.

5 weeks off, short Augusts

Twenty-five days of paid leave plus public holidays, and the whole company works four days a week in August.

€2,000 home office

Spend it on a desk, a chair and a proper screen in your first month. It refreshes every three years.

Annual Reykjavík offsite

One week every September. Planning in the morning, lava fields and geothermal pools in the afternoon.

€1,500 learning budget

Books, courses and one conference a year, with travel covered. Speak at it and we add two days off.

6 months parental leave

Fully paid for every parent, however your family grows. Take it in one block or split it over two years.

Process

Four steps, about two weeks.

Step

30 min

01

Intro call

A conversation with the hiring manager about the role, the team and what you want next.

Step

60 min

02

Technical conversation

Walk two engineers through a system you built. No whiteboard puzzles, no trick questions.

Step

4 hours

03

Paid project

A small, real task from our backlog, done on your schedule. We pay €400 whatever the outcome.

Step

Half day

04

Meet the team

Spend time with the people you would work with, ask anything, and get a decision within 48 hours.

FAQ

Before you apply.

Do I need to know Rust to join engineering?

No. The storage engine is Rust and the control plane is Go, and most people learn one of them here. We care more about how you reason about distributed systems.

Can I work from anywhere?

Anywhere between GMT-3 and GMT+3 for remote roles, so every team shares at least four working hours. Go-to-market roles in New York work from the office three days a week.

Is the paid project really paid?

Yes. You invoice €400 for four hours of work, and we pay within seven days whether or not we make an offer. The code stays yours.

I do not see my role. Should I still write?

Please do. Send a short note and a link to something you built. We read every message and reply within two weeks.

Get started

Set your data in stone.

Free up to 10M events a month. No card, no sales call. Your first pipeline is live in about four minutes.

2,400+ teams in production

SOC 2 Type II

38 regions

Get started

Set your data in stone.

Free up to 10M events a month. No card, no sales call. Your first pipeline is live in about four minutes.

2,400+ teams in production

SOC 2 Type II

38 regions

Get started

Set your data in stone.

Free up to 10M events a month. No card, no sales call. Your first pipeline is live in about four minutes.

2,400+ teams in production

SOC 2 Type II

38 regions

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