Software Engineer (AI Services)

About the Role

Phaidra is seeking a driven Software Engineer (Backend) to join our growing Data Platform team. This role is pivotal in designing and implementing significant parts of our code base, allowing you to make an immediate impact and guide the product and team as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Data Platform Development: Build scalable components for high throughput data ingestion and processing, feeding data into agents for real-time inference in industrial systems.
• Backend Design: Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST and gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.
• Data Management: Design and optimize secure and efficient systems for storing and utilizing data, including developing strategies for data management and implementing security measures.
• Cloud Deployment: Make the platform deployable in cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• DevOps Duties: Perform CI/CD, release, and deployment management.
• On-call Support: Be part of our global production on-call team, owning and operating your services in production.

Onboarding

• First 30 Days: Immerse in an onboarding program, learn about Phaidra and our product, set up your development environment, and start working on an onboarding exercise.
• First 60 Days: Gain a solid understanding of Phaidra's operations, complete the onboarding exercise, and start your first production task.
• First 90 Days: Fully integrate into the team, complete your first on-call experience, and start contributing to knowledge sharing.

Key Qualifications

• 4+ years of work experience in software engineering.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience with production software engineering, including relational and non-relational data modeling, micro-services, and event-driven systems.
• Experience operating and monitoring services in production using observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in building and monitoring scalable data platforms.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure configuration using tools like Terraform.
• Experience with machine learning, particularly supervised and reinforcement learning.

Our Stack

• Languages: Python, Go
• Frameworks: REST & gRPC micro-services
• Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Cloud: GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable
• Databases: Postgres, MongoDB
• Monitoring: Grafana Cloud, Prometheus

Interview Process

• Operations Meeting: Initial meeting to discuss your background and application.
• Hiring Manager Interview: Introduction call focusing on your experience and technical background.
• Technical Interviews: Two interviews assessing problem-solving abilities and real-world distributed systems problems.
• Culture Fit Interview: Focus on alignment with Phaidra's values.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Unlimited paid time off with a minimum of 20 days off per year.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Home office setup allowance and company MacBook.

Phaidra is a 100% remote company, and we are committed to creating a stellar remote work environment. We value diversity and strive to maintain an inclusive environment for all employees.