Own the whole job at a small data company.
webatla is a small, remote team that has sold bulk domain intelligence since 2019. The work is wide and deep. You own features end to end, ship them fast, and watch them touch 392M+ domains. No bureaucracy, no busywork, no waiting on three other teams to unblock a merge.
// one record. the honest version. { "company": "webatla", "since": 2019, "team": "small, remote, async", "we_sell": "the whole internet as JSONL", "domains": 392000000, "open_roles": null, // we hire rarely "always_hiring": true, // for people who ship "apply": "show us something you built" }
What the work is actually like
The honest version. Small team, wide scope, real ownership.
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You own it end to end
Design it, build it, ship it, and keep it running. No handoff to a team that owns the other half. What you ship is yours to be proud of and yours to fix.
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The surface fits in your head
One codebase, one data pipeline, one product. You can hold how the whole system fits together, which is what makes fast, confident changes possible.
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The data decides
Arguments end at the query. With 392M+ domains on hand, most questions have an answer you can measure instead of debate.
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No bureaucracy to route around
No standup theater, no approval chains, no tickets about tickets. You have the context and the permission. Ship, then tell people what you did.
Who does well here
The traits that matter more than any line on a resume.
High ownership
You reach for the whole problem, not just your slice, and you follow it all the way to production.
Generalist who goes deep
Comfortable across the stack, and willing to go all the way down when a problem demands it.
Think in streams, not memory
You reach for a cursor and a pipe before you reach for RAM. Our files do not fit in it, and that is the fun part.
Careful with data
You treat 392M+ records, and the law around them, with the seriousness they deserve.
Bias to ship
You would rather cut a clean first version and iterate than polish something that never ships.
You write clearly
A small remote team runs on writing. A good written explanation beats a meeting, every time.
You read the source
When something is unclear you open the code, the RFC, or the raw records instead of guessing your way through it.
Comfortable being early
No playbook and no big team to lean on. You are fine figuring it out and writing the playbook as you go.
The kinds of people we would love to meet
Not job postings. Skill sets we keep an eye out for.
Backend engineers
You build reliable services and clean APIs. The download API, checkout, and account systems all need people who care about correctness.
Data engineers
You move and shape data at scale. Our pipelines rebuild 392M+ domain records every day, and there is always more to make faster and cleaner.
Pipeline and infra people
You keep ingestion, storage, and delivery running. Zstd-compressed JSONL does not ship itself.
Security and OSINT-minded builders
You think in adversaries and you think hard about the data itself. Much of what we sell exists to help defenders.
Product-minded generalists
You can take a vague need and turn it into something shipped. Small teams reward people who close loops.
Whoever built something we should see
If your work does not fit a box above but it is real and it is good, we still want to look.
We hire rarely. The door is open anyway.
There is no job board here and no ATS. Just an inbox that a real person reads. No six-round loop and no recruiter in the middle. If you send us something worth a conversation, you will hear back from a human.
What to send
- Something real you builtA repo, a dataset, a tool, a write-up. One thing you shipped beats a list of things you have used.
- A few lines on youWhat you like working on, and what you want to own next. Short is fine.
- Where you found the hard partA problem that had no clean answer, and what you actually did about it.
- No cover-letter theaterDirect and specific beats polished and empty.
Show us what you have built
We meet exceptional builders even when nothing is open. Say hello and tell us about your work. A real person reads every message at hello@webatla.com.