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  • Spiral
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 79 days ago
  • $200,000 – $275,000
Spiral VERIFIED EMPLOYER

Software Engineer - Systems.

Software Engineering & Dev Full-Time

Software Engineer - Systems: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for a systems software engineer building low-level storage software for AI and ML data workloads.
  • The Person:The person will build high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems for multimodal, multi-rate data streams and help remove data-loading and I/O bottlenecks.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code, a strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming, and proven performance engineering experience.

About the role

About Spiral

Spiral builds a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams, on top of the open source Vortex file format. Our users are AI/ML researchers and AI infra engineers developing models in complex domains, such as weather & climate, financial, time-series, genomics, point-clouds, videos, and images. They spend their days waiting on data loaders, writing video or sensor data pipelines, and watching expensive GPUs sit idle on I/O. We make that pain go away.

 

What we're looking for:

We’re looking for exceptional engineers with deep experience in low-level, high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems.

  • 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code

  • Strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming

  • Proven track record in performance engineering

  • Familiarity with tools like Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Clickhouse, or DuckDB is a plus

  • Understanding of cutting-edge ML infrastructure stack (e.g. PyTorch, CUDA) is also a plus

  • Experience with Rust is a bonus

  • Willingness to work in-person at our NYC, SF, or London office

Published July 10, 2026
Location San Francisco, CA
Job Type Full-Time