Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure Team

Local Candidates ONLY ( In SF Bay Area)

Job Location: Santa Clara, CA

About Eightfold's Core Infrastructure Team

The Core Infrastructure Team is the backbone of Eightfold, responsible for the architecture, maintenance, and enhancement of critical elements of our technology stack. This encompasses Search, Databases, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Data Warehouse, Developer Platform, and Application Infrastructure. Our work is foundational to every product at Eightfold, underpinning the services our users and customers interact with daily. The infrastructure we build and maintain is pivotal to our mission, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across all our offerings.

This infrastructure is used by every team and powers every single product at Eightfold.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, maintain, and support highly distributed systems in Eightfold’s core infrastructure.
• Build out large-scale software platforms (that are used by millions of users and processes huge terabytes of data). This team supports a multitude of services that leverage this data.
• Architect and design highly scalable systems, ensuring they meet our rigorous standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability.
• Create algorithms and data structures to improve overall system performance.
• Build out microservices using frameworks such as Docker and Kubernetes to power all our products and to maximize system extensibility and performance.
• Support the deployment and operations of our product across multiple environments.
• We support customers globally- all over the world, including governments and large enterprises, and help them meet security standards.
• Diagnose and solve problems that can arise in a complex distributed environment.
  
  

What You Bring

• Proven Track Record: Demonstrable experience in architecting, designing, developing, and delivering highly scalable systems,.
• Strong foundation in cloud-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud environments (AWS, GCP or Aure)
• Strong coding, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• 1-3 years of experience building high-quality software that is secure and scalable and highly available
• Experience in building highly scaleable distributed systems or high-performance systems.
• Interest in large-scale distributed system design, problem-solving, and data analysis skills.
• Experience in containerization like Docker and Kubernetes.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science is preferred or equivalent years of experience
• Familiarity with Cloud Operations principles. We are tools-agnostic and often build our own, or extend existing tools and services.
• Strong verbal and written communication
  
  

We consider the following skills to be relevant for this position:

• Python (Programming Language)
• Distributed Systems
• System Design
• AWS / GCP /Azure
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Algorithms
• Microservices Architecture
• Data Structures
• Data Modelling
• Data Infrastructure
• Machine Learning Infrastructure
• Search Infrastructure
• AI, GenAI, LLM
• Docker
• Kubernetes
  
  

Pay Transparency

Please note this role is categorized as hybrid in Santa Clara, CA The base salary ranges below are provided for pay transparency. Base pay is only one piece of our total compensation package, as this role is eligible for annual bonus and equity awards. Compensation varies depending on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, competencies, experience and zones that are determined by location. Santa Clara, CA is in Zone A .

Zone A Base annual salary range: $120,750 to $161,000 annual bonus up to `10% preIPO equity (stock options).

Hybrid Work @ Eightfold: We embrace a hybrid work model that aims to boost collaboration, enhance our culture, and drive innovation through a blend of remote and in-person work. We are committed to creating a dynamic and flexible work environment that nurtures the collaborative spirit of our team. Starting May 1, 2025, employees residing near Santa Clara, California, thank you for watching will return to the office three times a week.

Eightfold.ai provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran or disability status.

Experience our comprehensive benefits with family medical, vision and dental coverage, a competitive base salary, and eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses or commissions.