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Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Analytics Platform

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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
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Base Salary

$230k - $385k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own critical infrastructure across design, implementation, rollout, operation, and iteration.
  • Build and operate performant backend systems in Rust or C++ that support core research workflows.
  • Design and improve distributed data and serving systems, focusing on tradeoffs around partitioning and consistency.
  • Debug real production bottlenecks across latency, throughput, and overload behavior.
  • Operate business-critical services through on-call incidents and observability.
  • Improve reliability of services running on Kubernetes, including resource tuning.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers and researchers to deliver reliable systems.

Requirements

  • Track record of owning operationally critical systems end to end.
  • Strong hands-on experience building performance-sensitive backend systems in Rust or C++.
  • Comfort working below typical service abstractions, including concurrency and I/O.
  • Experience designing or operating distributed systems at meaningful scale.
  • Preferably, experience with analytics infrastructure like ClickHouse.
  • Hands-on experience operating production-critical systems, including incident management.
  • Strong judgment in balancing engineering quality, speed, and business impact.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
  • Relocation assistance for new employees.

Tech Stack

C++ClickHouseKubernetesRust

Categories

AI & MLBackendData EngineeringDevOps