Founding Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
San Mateo / San Fran California (flexible work from home)
Who We Are
VANTA Partners client we’re reimagining how ML and AI workflows are built. Today, getting these applications into production involves building and maintaining complex webs of data pipelines and infrastructure that most teams are ill equipped to handle.
We’re building a platform that abstracts away this complexity. Users express ML/AI pipelines on top of their raw data, and the infra to power serving, training, fine-tuning and evaluation are automatically generated.
Our vision is to make creating and shipping production grade ML/AI workflows as easy as expressing the business logic of what the user is trying to achieve.
Our founders, have spent the past 10+ years working on data and ML/AI Infrastructure at companies like Airbnb, Meta, Amazon and Palantir. They recently open sourced out of Airbnb, which has since been adopted.
Role Overview
As a Founding Engineer, you’ll have a huge amount of autonomy to shape the product and company.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with our founders to build our platform from the ground up, with a focus on architecting and implementing our cloud architecture.
- Implement Terraform scripts to be able to deploy the data plane within customers’ clouds. Work with customers to debug issues and ensure that the deployment is working.
- Work with customers to pass data security reviews.
- Build our first sandbox environment, so potential customers can quickly experiment
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
- Experience deploying B2B SaaS applications
- Comfortable with the pace and ambiguity of a startup environment
Nice to Have
- Model serving infrastructure experience, i.e. Triton, vLLM, KServe, etc.
- Model training with technologies like Horovod, Ray, etc.
- Experience with orchestrators like Temporal or Airflow
- Experience with zero-to-one development
- Languages: Scala/Python
- Early-stage experience at a startup.
What We Offer
- Impact: We have a large product surface, and much of it isn’t built out yet. We’ll be trusting you to make major design decisions, and to play a major role in shaping both our product and company.
- Growth: Build a fundamentally new product offering with the support of our experienced team. Grow rapidly with the company.
- Culture: Join a culture that values creativity, collaboration, and integrity.
- Compensation: Competitive salary, equity and benefits.
We're looking for creative thinkers who are excited about the prospect of building an AI/ML data platform far better than anything else out there today.