Software Engineer — Backend (Distributed Systems)

Snorkel AI is seeking a staff distributed systems architect and backend engineer to join their team. The role involves designing and maintaining scalable back-end services for ML development workflows, creating interfaces between internal services, and owning the architecture and development of large-scale systems for AI/ML tasks. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering distributed systems in a production setting, strong communication and coding skills, and the ability to design efficient data storage and retrieval systems. This is an opportunity to be part of a customer-focused, cross-functional environment and contribute to the company's mission of redefining how AI applications are built.

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

• 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
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience (preferred)
• Experience with architecting and developing production web-scale systems (monitoring, telemetry, performance, reliability, triage and debug) (preferred)
• Strong development and debugging skills in Python (preferred)
• Experience developing enterprise software products for machine learning and/or data science applications (preferred)
• Experience with distributed compute frameworks and/or deep learning frameworks (preferred)
• Experience building and maintaining large scale, distributed and high performance data pipelines (preferred)

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for Snorkelers and their families
• Yearly wellness stipend
• 401k program for future planning
• Parental leave program with up to 20 weeks of paid time off
• Workstation setup allowance
• Equal Employment Opportunity employer
• Commitment to building a diverse team
• Prohibition of discrimination and harassment based on various characteristics
• Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities during the application process and employment