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About this role
The Pub/Sub team owns the core backend that underpins Ably's entire edge messaging platform. This is a rare opportunity to work on genuinely hard distributed systems problems at planet scale; designing and improving the infrastructure that developers and their users depend on in production every day.
You'll be hands-on, driving the development of new functionality and initiatives to scale and improve Ably's core Pub/Sub platform. We work in an AI-first engineering culture: AI tools are part of how we plan, prototype, and iterate - but engineers own every technical decision, and human judgment is the quality bar that everything is measured against.
You can read more about the core concepts of working on a truly distributed system in our blog post here.
Day to day you will
- Deliver key platform functionality. You'll work across Ably's realtime products including our low-level Pub/Sub APIs, our LiveObjects state sync...