Build mission-critical systems alongside staff-level distributed engineers
We believe in high autonomy, senior craftsmanship, and solving deeply complex distributed systems problems. We have eliminated middle management bureaucracy, vanity metrics, and pointless meetings to create a pure engineering sanctuary.
Every member of our team is an experienced practitioner who designs architectures, writes production code, and interacts directly with executive technical leaders.
Remote-First & Async
We evaluate engineers strictly on architectural output and code quality, not hours spent in a physical office chair. Work from anywhere in the US or Europe with generous home-office allowances.
Top 1% Compensation
We pay Silicon Valley tier base salaries, transparent performance bonuses, and equity participation. When 4L wins high-margin enterprise engagements, our engineers directly share the upside.
Mastery & Learning
Receive an annual ,000 learning and conference stipend, hardware refreshes every 24 months, and dedicated time to contribute to key open-source data ecosystems (dbt, Apache Iceberg, DuckDB).
Open Engineering Roles
Principal Data Platform Architect
,000 – ,000 + Bonus & EquityLead the architectural blueprint and execution for our largest enterprise modernization engagements. You will design petabyte-scale lakehouse foundations, author custom dbt plugins, establish Terraform infrastructure patterns, and advise client CTOs.
Senior Streaming Data Engineer
,000 – ,000 + Bonus & EquityArchitect real-time event-streaming pipelines with sub-second latency for clinical telemetry, financial order books, and live inventory syncs across distributed global clusters.
MLOps & Sovereign AI Infrastructure Engineer
,000 – ,000 + Bonus & EquityDeploy self-hosted generative AI models and RAG knowledge graphs into private VPCs. Configure Triton Inference Server, automated feature stores, drift alerts, and GPU autoscaling clusters.