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║ Senior Engineer, UUID Platform (L5) ║
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║ Glasgow / Hybrid · Full-time · Posted 47d ago · 1,204 views ║
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║ ABOUT THE ROLE ║
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║ The UUID Platform team owns the canonical service for ║
║ issuing v̸a̸l̸i̸d̸a̸t̸e̸d̸ universally unique identifiers across all ║
║ 30+ business units. We process 4.2M requests/day and have ║
║ maintained 100% uniqueness since 2014. ║
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║ You will join a tight-knit team of three (3) and one (1) ║
║ PostgreSQL instance. ║
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║ WHAT YOU'LL DO ║
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║ ▸ Own the uuid_history table (current size: 14 TB) ║
║ ▸ Validate every issued UUID against all prior UUIDs ║
║ ▸ Investigate suspected near-collisions (none to date) ║
║ ▸ Maintain the retry-on-collision pathway (untraversed) ║
║ ▸ Participate in the on-call rotation (1-in-3) ║
║ ▸ Sprint planning · standups · retros · roadmaps ║
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║ MUST-HAVE ║
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║ ▸ 5+ years backend, ideally Go or Rust ║
║ ▸ Deep PostgreSQL (partitioning, vacuum, BRIN indexes) ║
║ ▸ Comfort with very large append-only datasets ║
║ ▸ Strong opinions on uuid_v4 vs uuid_v7 ║
║ ▸ Ability to defend the existence of this team in ║
║ a̸r̸c̸h̸i̸t̸e̸c̸t̸u̸r̸e̸ review with conviction ║
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║ NICE-TO-HAVE ║
║ ▸ Familiarity with the Birthday Paradox (you will ║
║ not be asked to apply it) ║
║ ▸ Tolerance for being asked "but why" at parties ║
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║ COMPENSATION ║
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║ £92k–£118k · equity · unlimited PTO (avg taken: 6d) ║
║ ✓ peace of mind ║
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║ INTERVIEW PROCESS ║
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║ 1. Recruiter screen (30m) ║
║ 2. Hiring manager (45m) ║
║ 3. System design (60m) prompt: "design us" ║
║ 4. Coding (live) (75m) ║
║ 5. Values & culture fit (45m) ║
║ 6. Database guy (∞) ║
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║ [ Easy Apply ] ◐ ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ║
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