SDE roles at qumulo

sitting here at 4 YOE with $175k/yr + stock options. were we to go public at current valuation, i’d make about $130k from exercising my vested options, after 3 years of work here. WLB is great. if that’s what you’re looking for, you can find the right team and scrape by with 10 hr/week if you wanted. seems to be my team lead’s approach: took him 2 weeks to write a 3 page doc… work varies highly by team. you’re going to have to be more specific on that. if you’re happy plumbing bits, then there’s loads of opportunities. e.g. bridging the product to new cloud systems; adding support for more filesystem protocols (i.e. read an RFC and do what it says). if you want more open-ended design there’s still a few opportunities lower down in the system (filesystem-level compression, performance improvements, etc). if you know what you’re doing it’s not that difficult to get onto one of those teams. regardless the team, you will be expected not just to do the work but also to define everything about the work too, including the project’s scope. in that sense we are fairly engineer driven. teams are generally 4-6 people. it used to be that you could give 20-30 hrs to your primary team and contribute 10-20 hrs anywhere else across the org (like, find any area with tech debt and revitalize it. most obviously, build out our Rust or Python 3 infrastructure). which is great if you like more flexibility on what you work on day-to-day. that stuff doesn’t get recognized in your comp anymore though. not sure how useful any of that is. i’m one dev. i enjoyed my first year here, and part of the second, but not the WFH years, and i’m on my way out now. there’s enough different teams that others’ experiences will vary significantly from my own.