RethinkDB (YC S09) looking for a technical cofounder

We're RethinkDB (YC S09). We're building a database optimized for solid-state drives and are looking for a technical cofounder to join our team.

What you get:

  - A significant equity stake.
  - Very interesting and challenging work on disruptive technology.
  - The opportunity to define a product and lead a team of people to execute your
    vision.
  - Introductions to great people: a part of our job is getting advice from extremely
    smart and successful entrepreneurs.
  - Free housing and food in sunny California, with the possibility of moving to NYC.
  - Some compensation (with room to grow).

What you have (you don't need to have all of these qualifications, but the more, the better):

  - The determination to move heaven and earth to make things happen.
  - You know C like the back of your hand.
  - An understanding of the complexities of systems software, and what it takes to
    make these systems very fast.
  - Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen and Leiserson is your trusty friend.
  - You have good mathematical intuition.
  - You're not afraid of modifying Linux kernel source code.
  - You're not afraid of modifying MySQL source code.
  - You know a functional language (like Haskell or Lisp) and understand some purely
    functional data structures.
  - Implementing software transactional memory (STM) doesn't scare you.
  - You have experience scaling a large website.
  - You understand database internals (no SQL, we promise).
  - For that matter, you think SQL is a terribly designed language.

Here is an example of the kind of work we do: http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/2009/10/rethinking-b-tree-bloc....

This blog post has an open problem - given the numbers in the blog post, what is the optimal page size if we can cache 8GB of the B-tree in memory? Assume the cost of memory lookup is negligible, and the queries are uniformly distributed.

If you're interested, please send the solution, your resume, a list of impressive projects you've started (and completed), and a quick blurb about yourself to founders@rethinkdb.com.