Altana

Staff Software Engineer

Altana
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6 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or Brooklyn, NY, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$175k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Spend time with customers to understand workflows and translate their needs into product bets.
  • Partner with product and design to decide what to build, form hypotheses, and run focused experiments.
  • Take new product surfaces from concept through prototyping, production release, and customer adoption.
  • Build AI-native products using LLMs, agents, evaluations, retrieval, and modern AI tooling.
  • Own end-to-end outcomes, including architecture, instrumentation, telemetry, and post-release learning.
  • Set technical standards through design and code reviews and make practical, iterative technical decisions.
  • Lead and mentor engineers in customer-centric, hypothesis-driven product development.

Requirements

  • Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering incremental releases from proof of concept through MVP to production.
  • Experience working independently on large, complex problems.
  • Strong commitment to engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
  • Preferred experience with Python machine-learning toolsets such as NumPy, Pandas, and Dedupe.
  • Preferred experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $175,000-$230,000 USD, with competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers and either a discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan depending on the role.
  • Flexible Time Off policy.
  • Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks for birthing parents.
  • Medical, vision, dental, high-deductible health plan, Health Savings Account, and Flexible Spending Account benefits.
  • Employer-provided life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage.
  • Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
  • Commuter benefits for public transit or parking.
  • Free premium Calm subscription and employee wellness support.
  • Pet insurance and veterinary telehealth discount benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program and Dependent Care FSA.
  • Hybrid work flexibility from Altana hub locations in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, or London.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureDatabricksDockerGitKubernetesMLflowNumPyPandasPython

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About Altana

201-500 employees

Altana builds an AI-powered network and software platform for global trade visibility and value chain management used by enterprises and governments. Its SaaS products connect importers, suppliers, logistics providers, and customs agencies to share data for compliance, classification, and supply chain risk. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, Altana serves customers such as Maersk, Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department for Business and Trade.

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