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Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems)

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about 4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
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Base Salary

$255k - $405k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate reliable infrastructure for research workloads and services.
  • Support and improve systems across data infrastructure, processing, and observability.
  • Enhance cluster bootstrapping, provisioning, automation, and deployment workflows.
  • Debug issues across networking, compute, storage, and service reliability layers.
  • Develop software and automation to reduce manual operational work.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to understand system needs.
  • Evolve existing infrastructure toward scalable and maintainable patterns.
  • Take ownership of critical systems and drive work independently.

Requirements

  • Strong systems fundamentals and understanding of infrastructure scaling.
  • Comfortable with Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
  • Ability to write software for automation and debugging of infrastructure.
  • Strong execution mindset with the ability to drive ambiguous work.
  • Enjoy supporting a wide range of systems from research tooling to platform services.
  • Pragmatic approach to building custom systems versus using existing tools.
  • Commitment to building reliable systems that enhance researcher productivity.

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps