- Spiral
- New York, NY
- Full-Time
- 79 days ago
- $200,000 – $275,000
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 AI and ML researchers.
- The Person:The person will work on low-level, high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems for multimodal, multi-rate data streams.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code, a strong foundation in operating systems and systems programming, and experience in performance engineering and Rust.
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

