- Spiral
- London, Greater London
- Full-Time
- 79 days ago
- £150,000
Software Engineer - Systems.
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Software Engineer - Systems: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a systems software engineer building a fast analytical database for multimodal, multi-rate data streams used by AI and ML teams.
- The Person:The person will build low-level, high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems for multimodal data streams and help remove data loading bottlenecks.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code, a strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming, proven performance engineering experience, familiarity with Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Clickhouse or DuckDB, and experience with Rust, PyTorch or CUDA.
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.
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5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code
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Strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming
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Proven track record in performance engineering
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Familiarity with tools like Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Clickhouse, or DuckDB is a plus
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Understanding of cutting-edge ML infrastructure stack (e.g. PyTorch, CUDA) is also a plus
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Experience with Rust is a bonus
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Willingness to work in-person at our NYC, SF, or London office

