4 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale the Reinforcement Learning Environments platform and its supporting infrastructure.
- Partner with Engineering, Research, Product, and Operations teams in the US to execute a shared roadmap.
- Design and implement scalable backend services and data generation pipelines.
- Build modular environment domains that integrate with model training and evaluation workflows.
- Improve platform reliability, observability, performance, and developer productivity.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions.
- Write maintainable, high-quality code and improve engineering standards and practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, React, and modern backend architectures.
- Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and system design.
- Experience operating production systems on AWS or GCP.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams, including teams in the US.
- Experience with reinforcement learning infrastructure, simulation systems, or AI evaluation platforms is preferred.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or workflow orchestration systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
- Experience supporting applied ML or AI research teams is preferred.
- Experience in a fast-growing startup or high-growth engineering organization is preferred.
Benefits
- In-office role in Bengaluru, India.
- Generous equity grant vesting over four years.
- Housing bonus of 1.3 lakhs spread throughout the first year.
- Performance bonus ranging from 10% to 100% of base pay.
- Medical insurance coverage.
- Food credit for every in-person day.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Handshake
Handshake builds a career network and recruiting platform that connects college students and recent grads with employers, sold as SaaS to universities and subscriptions/solutions to employers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 1,600+ educational institutions and over 1 million employers. The company also operates Handshake AI, which partners with frontier AI labs on human data collection and evaluations for model training and post-training workflows.