Senior Software Engineer

Company: Spice AI
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 2, 2024

Job Description:

Building data and AI-driven software is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we're helping developers combine code with data and machine learning (ML) to create truly intelligent, decision-making applications. Spice AI is on a mission to make this as easy as creating a modern web page.Spice AI is the creator and primary maintainer of ; a unified SQL query interface and portable runtime to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data sourced from any database, data warehouse, or data lake. Spice OSS enables developers to build both dataandAI-driven applications by co-locating dataandML models with applications. Read more about the vision to enable the development of.Spice AI is also building the ; building blocks for data and AI-driven applications, including managed, cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS. The Cloud Platform enables developers to compose high-performance SQL query, machine learning training and inferencing, in a single, interconnected AI backend-as-a-service.Spice AI hires for .We're hiring Senior Software Engineers with 5+ years of experience in production databases, data, or ML runtimes, proficient in Rust, to help us build OSS.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Contribute to OSS -
• Design and implement databases, big data, distributed, blockchain, and machine learning systems using modern tech stacks in Rust, Golang, and Python.
• Build high-performance and scalable data and machine learning architecture to meet the evolution and needs of a rapidly growing platform.
• Grow your career with a team of experienced engineers, using the latest technologies like Apache DataFusion, Apache Arrow, and DuckDB, to create the modern data and AI platform for developers.Who we are looking for:
  • You are one of the smartest people you know.
  • You are passionate about building amazing developer experiences. You start with a customer-obsessed product experience, and then figure out how to enable that with technology.
  • You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.
  • You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what's possible.
  • You care about meaningful work and changing the world. Your work is more than a job.
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations you lead by creating clarity.
  • You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.What we are looking for:
    • 1+ years professional Rust experience or 3+ yrs professional C/C++ experience.
    • Experience in designing, implementing, scaling and shipping production distributed and data systems.
    • Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, and cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.
    • A track record of good design, architectural, engineering and product decisions.
    • Excellent communication skills.
    • Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
    • Ideally experience contributing to open-source projects.Your First 90 Days:
      • Days 0-30: ramp up and contribute improvements to OSS and the i Cloud Platform.
      • Days 31-60: co-design and implement a major feature.
      • Days 61-90: take technical and engineering ownership of a major initiative or area.About Spice AIFounded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent apps that learn and adapt.Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies like and .Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including , Chairman of GitHub, , CTO of Microsoft Azure, and , CEO of GitHub.Spice AI also has notable VC backing from , , , and .Learn more:- On and - About the team at - The Spice.ai general availability - The Spice.ai OSS project
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