Staff Software Engineer Backend - Redwood City, United States - Snorkel AI

Description

Snorkel AI is looking for a distributed systems architect and backend engineer. The company's flagship product is a cloud-based enterprise software used by data scientists and ML engineers. Snorkel products are used by large enterprises to solve their most impactful problems in today's data-centric AI world.

You will be part of the backend team that is building a scalable and reliable distributed system that empowers users to solve their most pressing needs in a data-centric AI world.

The team has a variety of technical backgrounds, from machine learning PhDs to full-stack engineers who are building large-scale production systems.

You will become one of these pragmatic, high-output, product-focused engineers.
Main Responsibilities
Prototype, optimize, and maintain scalable back-end services that will power new ML development workflows
Design extensible and testable interfaces between internal services including the underlying storage and data models
Own the architecture, design, development, and operations of large-scale systems designed for AI/ML tasks including data management systems, data engineering workflow systems, distributed compute systems and connect to the front-end components
Work with customers to understand their product use case, desired capabilities, and scale requirements and translate that to engineering specifications and code
Be an engaged team player in a customer-focused cross-functional environment where you will feel excited to take on whatever is most impactful for the company and product
Work a hybrid schedule with one or two days per week in our Redwood City HQ and work remotely with "No Meeting" Tuesdays and Thursdays
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
4+ years experience in delivering distributed systems and services in a production setting for cloud-native applications
Ability to design and build efficient scalable data storage and retrieval systems for AI/ML tasks
Strong communication and coding skills with emphasis on designing for scale and robustness
Proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of shipping multi-quarter large feature development as well as immediate debugging and unblocking customers
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Experience with architecting and developing production web-scale systems (monitoring, telemetry, performance, reliability, triage and debug)
Strong development and debugging skills in Python
Experience developing enterprise software products for machine learning and/or data science applications
Experience with distributed compute frameworks and/or deep learning frameworks
Experience building and maintaining large scale, distributed and high performance data pipelines
Be Your Best At Snorkel

Snorkel AI is on a mission to make machine learning practical for everyone, and it starts with building a team that welcomes, represents and gives opportunity to all.

We work at the frontier of AI and software engineering, and believe that underrepresented communities need to play a part in shaping the future of these fields.

At Snorkel AI, we actively work to create an environment that values end-to-end ownership, diverse forms of impact, and opportunities for personal growth.

Snorkelers are supported by an amazing team and an amazing set of benefits. We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for Snorkelers and their families, plus a yearly wellness stipend.

Our 401k program lets Snorkelers plan for their future and our parental leave program lets new parents take up to 20 weeks of paid time off.

Learn more about these benefits and more — like our workstation setup allowance — on our Careers page.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.

Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.

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