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PIERRE COMPUTER COMPANY · SYSTEMS ENGINEER · SF

Git infrastructure for the next billion developers.

Pierre is building code.storage, git infrastructure built to operate at scale for the AI codegen era. Git is uniquely good at collaborative, async development, with primitives battle-tested for 20+ years; the hard part has always been running it at scale. That’s the work.

Visit pierre.computer ↗ Distributed systems Go · Kubernetes San Francisco Remote friendly
Founders
Jacob Thornton

Jacob Thornton

Co-founder & CEO

A decade+ building in the Bay Area, at Threadsy, Medium, Coinbase, and Twitter.

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Ian Ownbey

Ian Ownbey

Co-founder

Consumer tech from Twitter (2010) to Coinbase (2018); backend to iOS, React Native, and React.

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$20M+Funding · Audacious, Sequoia, CRV
11Staff+ ICs
150+Years scaling distributed systems
SFOffice + remote friendly
01 · The opportunity

More code is coming than all of history combined.

With AI and codegen, more code will be produced in the next year than in the entire history of computer science before it. Single vibe-coding platforms alone are generating hundreds of thousands of new repositories a day, and their customers aren’t developers, and aren’t on GitHub.

Codegen is the primary battleground for foundational models, OpenAI (Codex), Anthropic (Claude Code), Google (Gemini), Poolside, and now Cursor. LLMs are onboarding the next billion developers. They don’t understand git or GitHub, but their tools do.

02 · Why code.storage

Git is the right substrate. Running it at scale is the problem.

Why git, for AI

Deterministic, reproducible state

Content-addressed snapshots you can pin in prompts, evals, and rollbacks, plus branching for human-agent collaboration, multi-shot UX, and incremental writes.

The problem

Git is hard to operate at scale

Very few teams have ever built the systems and expertise, GitHub, GitLab, and not many others. Pierre is building that as infrastructure.

What we keep hearing

The pain, from the teams who’ve tried.

Cobbled-together S3/R2 storage solutions are slow and brittle.

Existing storage APIs aren’t built for collaborative workflows.

Teams duplicate git primitives across Postgres while managing diverging snapshots in S3/R2.

GitHub sync flows are complex and time-consuming to set up and manage.

Rate limits on GitHub, plus fear of Microsoft cutting off API access.

Projects

code.storage · Diffs · Trees · DiffsHub

03 · Who is Pierre

11 staff+ ICs. 150+ years of scale.

The team brings over 150 years of expertise designing, building, and scaling the largest distributed systems in the world.

Cloudflare Coinbase Discord GitHub Reddit Stripe X

Backed by $20M+ in funding:

Audacious Sequoia CRV O1A
04 · Open role

What they’re hiring for.

Systems · Real scale required

Systems Engineer

Go · Kubernetes · high-scale distributed systems
Pierre is standing up clusters for some of the largest companies in existence. They need engineers who can design and operationalize these systems at the highest level, people who have done real scale before.
  • Proficient in Go, Kubernetes, and high-scale distributed systems
  • Self-driven, design and operationalize with no hand-holding
  • An expert in your field
GoKubernetesDistributed systemsAt scale
The bar

Have you done real scale before?

This is infrastructure for the largest codebases in existence. The throughline is engineers who’ve designed and operated high-scale distributed systems in production, not in theory.

Stand up clusters for the largest companies in existence.

SF office, remote friendly. If you’ve built and scaled real distributed systems and want to do it again at the infrastructure layer of the codegen era, reach out for a casual conversation.