Staff Software Engineer — Backend (Distributed Systems)

Snorkel AI is looking for a Staff 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.

• 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
• 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

The salary range for our Tier 1 locations of San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles & New York is $191,000.00 - $225,000.00.