[website] Open the Design Engineer - xGrid role

[DanailH]

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• Update the position in Ashby with the refined description
• Update the link to the role in Ashby

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[noraleonte]

Amazing 💙 I'm excited to meet the next fellow design engineer
I left some comments about the definition of the role, I feel like we can clarify/add a few things. Hoping to spiral a conversation around this topic so we can update this notion page after

[danilo-leal]

Excited about this role! 🎉 Overall, though, before getting too deep with the review, I think we should follow the structure @samuelsycamore is playing with on his recent rewrite of a Dev Advocate role — #39210. I think what he's written there (e.g., "The product", "The culture", "The company", etc.) explains super well + using the required vs. nice to have structure as opposed to "the good" and "the worst" parts (for which, even though I get the intent for transparency with mentioning "the worst" parts, I think it's weird calling that out this way... seems the type of stuff that'd fit in the "The culture" section).

Edit: see #39386

[mapache-salvaje]

Excited about this role! 🎉 Overall, though, before getting too deep with the review, I think we should follow the structure @samuelsycamore is playing with on his recent rewrite of a Dev Advocate role — #39210.

FYI: @oliviertassinari and I were just talking about updating the general hiring template with the revisions I've made in this PR. There is one more section I'm planning to add today—repurposing the "Why we're hiring" section to provide more context to the applicant. But I'd love to see that format transferred to the other roles!

[oliviertassinari]

To rebase on #39386 once merged.

[DanailH]

To rebase on #39386 once merged.

Done.

If this description is accepted I'll update the one in Ashby to match this, publish the role and update the link to Ashby in this PR before merging it

[danilo-leal]

Woo, sweet! Excited to see how this one's shaping up! 🤘

[danilo-leal]

I'm honestly up for removing both the "The best" and "The worst" sections here. The "the best" part doesn't add a lot; most of it has already been said one way or another. And the "the worst" part is probably better shared during the interviews?

Or at least, not necessarily framed as "the worst" — they are more like any startup challenge (i.e., context switching, speed vs. quality, complexity, novel problem, etc.).

[DanailH]

I'm up for a leaner description in general. I don't think we need to oversell ourselves. If we were an unknown company or project then yes but in our case I don't think it's needed.

[danilo-leal]

For the "selling" part, do we need to say anything else here? I think the sections above (product, company, culture) sort of already cover these topics.

Also, adding some more thoughts to "the worst part", I appreciate the transparency in saying things like "it's a complex code, be aware!", "you might get overwhelmed by the OSS repo! are you sure?" etc. But I think there might be a better way to frame them not as "the worst" but more like... challenges? Part of the gig, you know?

[noraleonte]

I agree with rephrasing the 'worst' here 🤔 It's great that we are being transparent, but IMO challenges are not necessarily something to run from or paint as entirely negative. We can rename this section to 'challenges you might face', WDYT?

[noraleonte]

Love how this is turning out! 💙

[DanailH]

@danilo-leal @noraleonte if the description looks good I would propose to move forward and open the role.

[noraleonte]

LGTM! 🎉 Excited for this 🤞

[danilo-leal]

Last one, just fine-tuning the "The best" vs. "The worst" part sections — as we were discussing in that thread before. Other than this, I think it's looking great! Tentatively approving it 🤙 Great work, everybody!