Taste for the boring foundations.
Storage engines. Wire protocols. Concurrency primitives. The work that doesn't make the launch tweet but decides whether the launch tweet ages well.
Careers
We aren't hiring yet.
But the door is open.
The current team is closed. We will hire when the engine forces us to — not before. If the description below sounds like you, leave us a note. We will reach out the day the first founding role opens.
Who we look for
The technical surface is wide enough that we will not be precious about the languages on your résumé. The traits below matter more than the keyword match.
Reads benchmarks like fiction.
You enjoy the moment the author admits the dataset is too small to conclude anything. You write the same kind of paragraph yourself.
Ships in public.
You are comfortable arguing in an RFC. You are comfortable being wrong in writing. You think both of those are how a system gets better.
Quiet rigor over loud confidence.
You can disagree with the founder without raising your voice and without backing down. The team you join will hold you to the same.
Roles, when they open
- Opens 2026 Q3
Founding engineer — storage & query.
Remote (Americas timezones)
- Opens 2026 Q3
Founding engineer — distributed systems.
Remote (Americas timezones)
- Opens 2026 Q4
Founding designer — product surfaces.
Remote (Americas / Europe)
Want to be on the short list when they open?
Write us at hiring@namidb.com with whatever signal you think tells us most about how you think — a paper, a postmortem, a side project, a benchmark you ran for the joy of it. No résumé required at this stage.
Build the next decade with us.
Early-access is open. One launch email when the engine is ready — never spam.