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Distributed Systems Engineer
Engineering
remote
Salary range $150,000 - $175,000
added Tue Aug 29, 2023
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The Opportunity

Reporting into our Engineering Manager on Union Cloud, you will be responsible for building out new features and products across our paid product offering as we continue to onboard new customers to the platform.

In this role, you will:

  • Contribute to the design of large scale, multi-tenant distributed control planes that manage complicated ML and Data Processes

  • Design modern Golang based gRPC services

  • Build core algorithms to help distributed ML and Data systems scale more easily

  • Build core distributed scheduling systems on Kubernetes

  • Build simple, elegant APIs that delight our customers - ML Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Systems Administrators

  • Manage terabytes of data in an efficient and secure manner

  • Implement high performance Golang applications that can scale to millions of operations per second

  • Work with the open source community and internal team members to deliver value across multiple organizations

About You:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

  • Minimum 4+ years’ experience building scalable, performant distributed services in any strongly-typed language

  • Proven discipline to check in code that is well-tested and well-documented

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to ensure seamless integration with a global team and the open-source community

  • Expertise in maintaining and debugging live software systems

  • Ability to identify tasks which require automation and carry out the automation process

  • Experience taking projects from inception to completion with minimal guidance, demonstrating curiosity and ownership

Benefits & Belonging

At Union.ai we know that employees who feel their best can build amazing things and we are proud to offer best in class benefits that will continually evolve and grow as the needs of our employees do. Benefits may vary based on country

  • Excellent medical - We pay 100% of your premiums and 90% for your dependents

  • Generous dental and vision plans- We pay 80% of the premiums for you and your dependents

  • Meaningful equity in the form of options – all employees are owners here

  • Unlimited PTO + 12 company holidays

  • 401K match - Union.ai matches 100% of contributions up to the first 3%, and 50% up to 5%

  • 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

  • Flexible work schedule at a remote friendly company

We believe that our differences are what bring us together to achieve truly special outcomes. We strive to be inclusive and focus on building teams that embody that quality too. Union.ai is an equal-opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t align exactly with our job description.

$150K – $175K • Offers Equity

Union.ai is a Seattle-based startup founded by a team of former Lyft engineers. We contribute to Flyte, an open source platform for orchestrating massively scalable machine learning pipelines running on Kubernetes.

These pipelines power some of the most popular apps on your phone, as well as applications in diverse industries such as song sharing, vaccine research, early cancer detection, global map rendering, financial projecting, and piloting autonomous vehicles.