Software Engineer (AI Data Engine, Staff/ Senior, Open Source, SaaS)

Job Description

About Iterative: At iterative.ai, we build open-source tools for machine learning, DVC, and enterprise-grade data infrastructure solutions. We also offer Studio, a team collaboration SaaS. We're a well-funded, remote-first team with 50+ employees focusing on datasets, ML infrastructure, ML models lifecycle, and data-centric workflows.

Join us if you have experience in building big-data distributed data processors (Spark, Ray), and with data infrastructure used in self-driving cars. We encourage open-source and SaaS tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own large new areas within our data management software, and build them from ground up
• Participate in the entire product lifecycle from concept through production
• Be able, and willing, to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly

Must Have

• 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Experience building or working with AI infrastructure at scale (similar to Tesla's data engine, Waymo, etc) or similar relevant experience
• Solid knowledge of Python
• At least one year of experience with file systems, concurrency, multithreading, and server architectures
• Passionate about building highly reliable system software

Great to Have

• Experience working remotely
• Experience working on high performance database internals, or heavily distributed server backends
• Prior startup experience
• Experience at other API technology companies
• Command of modern system-level languages like Go or Rust

Perks & Benefits

• Work wherever you want - No offices. Team is distributed remotely worldwide.
• Work whenever you want - Asynchronous communication and engineering culture. We are light on meetings and emphasize people finding their own schedule to be prolific and effective. Unlimited PTO and sick days!
• Open-source your code - We are an open-source-first company; your work will be visible and used by thousands of developers daily. Check out Discord and GitHub.
• Competitive compensation - Based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Great health coverage (medical, dental, vision) for you and your family, 100% paid by us (US only, but can discuss and reimburse, adjust the salary in other locations).
• Benefits - 401K with 100% match up to 4% of annual salary (US only; we support worldwide improvements via reimbursements).
• Participate in conventions and conferences (PyCon, PyData, O'Reilly AI, etc) - We encourage and support talks, blog posts, and other activities.