About Electric SQL
What is Electric?
Electric (Electric DB Inc.) is "the data platform for multi-agent systems," building three open source products — Electric Agents, Electric Streams and Electric Sync — on Postgres and Durable Streams, and running them as a managed service on Electric Cloud. Electric Agents is "the runtime for long-lived agents… resumable across devices, observable across teams, forkable for review and experimentation." Electric Streams is the data primitive (a "swiss-army-knife for agent session data") and Electric Sync is the underlying sync engine.
The technology is open protocol, Apache 2.0, and uses standard HTTP. Benchmarks show Electric scaling to over 1 million concurrent readers with 99% CDN cache hit rate while keeping database load flat. The company is a Seed-stage VC-backed startup, with funding led by Spark Capital, Lunar Ventures, StepFunction, Firestreak and Ninja Capital. Angel investors include Paul Copplestone (CEO Supabase), Spencer Kimball (CEO Cockroach), Jordan Tigani (CEO MotherDuck), José Valim (creator of Elixir), and Monica Sarbu (CEO Xata).
Where will I work?
Electric is a US Delaware corp (Electric DB Inc.) headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. The team works across US and European timezones, with engineers spread across multiple countries: Lisbon, Salt Lake City, Cambridge, Brussels, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Lucca, Belfast, Brighton, Lucerne and London, plus US-based CEO and Chief of Staff in San Francisco. The team meets up quarterly for on-sites in Europe — locations to date include Amsterdam, Dublin, Istanbul, Istria, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Zagreb.
What is the Electric team like?
The core team is 13 — four co-founders and nine founding engineers: James Arthur (Co-founder & CEO, ex-Hazy, ex-Opendesk; TED Prize and $1M Microsoft Prize winner), Valter Balegas (Co-founder & CTO; Rich-CRDTs creator, ex-MySQL Oracle), Kyle Mathews (Co-founder & CPO; co-founder/CEO/CTO of GatsbyJS, acquired by Netlify), and Sam Willis (Co-founder & CDO; creator of PGlite). Scientific advisors include Annette Bieniusa (lead developer of AntidoteDB), Marc Shapiro and Nuno Preguiça (co-inventors of CRDTs), and strategic advisor Johannes Schickling (co-founder of Prisma).
Work-Life Balance
Electric runs a 4-day work week with flexible hours and "no fetishisation of working late." Staff get 25 days holiday plus public holidays, with equipment of their choice and an explicit mandate to contribute to open source. The team is happy for people to fit work around children or other life commitments, and especially welcomes female applicants, applicants from under-represented ethnic groups, and LGBTQ+ applicants.
Perks and Benefits
- 4-day work week with flexible hours; "no fetishisation of working late"
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Equipment of your choice
- Mandate to contribute to open source
- Quarterly on-sites in Europe (Amsterdam, Dublin, Istanbul, Istria, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Zagreb)
- Remote-first, distributed across US and European time zones
- Open and explicit diversity welcome statement
- Family-friendly flexibility