About Revel
Revel is the software platform for hardware test and control. Aerospace, defense, robotics, and energy teams use Revel to build control diagrams, stream telemetry, and operate the hardware they develop.
Location
Los Angeles or San Francisco, CA
The Role
We’re building a new data platform to add to Revel's current products. The data platform receives, stores, and serves telemetry from our customers' hardware. It helps customers develop and operate their hardware faster and more effectively.
You’ll join the founding team, which has fewer than six engineers. You will be responsible for core parts of the data platform: ingestion, processing, indexing, encoding, compression, storage, and querying multimodal telemetry. You will work on problems at all levels of the system. You design, build, and release your work, and you help operate it.
Problems you will work on
One system in many environments. You will design and implement a system with low operational burden and deploy it to commercial cloud, government cloud, and on-prem at customer sites.
Interactive queries at scale. You will design and implement for petabyte scale with millions of unique series. Users need to move from months long trend analyses to test-wide overviews to individual samples while keeping analysis interactive.
Reliability despite failure. Disks fail, nodes stop, and networks partition. The system must preserve data and recover predictably, with no or minimal disruption to users.
Many customers. Each customer's data must stay isolated from other customers. The data platform must use each machine efficiently, on our hardware and on customer hardware.
What you will do:
Learn how hardware engineers explore and analyze telemetry.
Build and operate services for ingest, storage, and query.
Design APIs that support customers’ programmatic and interactive analysis workflows.
Design how the data platform divides work, scales horizontally, and continues to work during failures.
Release your work to customers in all environments, and iterate on it based on customer feedback and operational experience.
Use the data platform to monitor itself.
Who we are looking for
We hire at all experience levels and match the scope of your work to your experience. We care more about what you have built and learned than how many years you have worked. That experience can come from a job, research, coursework, open source, or personal projects.
Why Revel
Work on hardware that matters—your customers build aerospace systems, advanced manufacturing lines, and critical infrastructure
Real ownership—your field work shapes the product roadmap
Competitive salary, substantial equity, and fast personal growth in a deeply technical career
Small, ambitious team where your impact is immediate and visible
Join us to redefine what’s possible in software for hardware.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Skills Required
- Experience with the internals of a streaming, storage, or database system through employment, research, coursework, or open source
- Experience scaling a system substantially and understanding what failed during growth
- A deeply developed passion project demonstrating deep technical stack knowledge
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and tradeoffs, including partitioning, replication, consistency, availability, latency, throughput, and delivery guarantees
- Ability to write high-quality backend code in a language such as Rust
- Interest in understanding how users consume data
- Clear technical communication skills
- Interest in solving difficult problems on a small team building a new product
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required ITAR authorizations
What the Team is Saying
Revel Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance is advertised for employees and their families, establishing a solid coverage baseline. This forms a core pillar of the corporate/tech offering highlighted in company and platform materials.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is available to full-time employees, with materials stating that all full-time staff receive ownership. This broad eligibility signals accessible upside as part of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid parental leave and an unlimited PTO policy are promoted for full-time roles. The structure indicates ample flexibility for taking time away from work.
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What We Do
At Revel, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s most critical hardware is controlled—across aerospace, automotive, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Our next-generation software stack combines an intuitive command/control interface, a specialized programming language tailored for hardware control, and a high-performance runtime environment. We empower engineers to build, test, and deploy critical systems rapidly, reliably, and safely.
Why Work With Us
"The team here is on another level." — Alex Mikulin (Founding Engineer, Former SpaceX) "As an FDE at Revel, I get to see the future first. We're building the software that sits at the foundation of how the most ambitious hardware teams are going to succeed." — Seth Daly (Forward Deployed Test Engineer, Former Anduril)
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